VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS CARDS By Felicity Goodall
Talk | Seated
FELICITY GOODALL: Former journalist for regional newspapers before spending several years as a freelance correspondent in Norway. Work appeared in The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The New York Herald Tribune and Business Week. Written 5 popular history books and written a play and community pantomimes.
TALK: The Victorians ‘invented’ many of our Christmas traditions: a tree festooned with lights, Christmas crackers and Christmas cards. Printers, Charles Goodall and Sons were one of the first producers of Christmas cards in the early 1850s, transforming humble visiting cards into colourful missives of bonhomie. It was thanks to Goodalls that the robin became forever associated with the festive season. Queen Victoria was among their customers and although her taste veered more towards the sentimental, Goodall cards were often bizarre, humorous and topical, rarely religious. Charles Goodall was the speaker’s great- great- grandfather.
| Dates | Tickets | |
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| Mon 9th Dec | 2pm | |
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| All Tickets | £6.00 |
| FOTW Conc Single | £5.00 |
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