The sweets were replaced by small gifts and paper hats in the late Victorian period, and remain in this form as an essential part of a modern Christmas. Decorating the home at Christmas also ...

Hundreds of pupils in Jersey have gone back in time to see how schoolchildren of the Victorian era celebrated Christmas. The project, which involved 10 schools and 500 children, was organised by ...

This article originally appeared on Delaware News Journal: A Victorian Christmas at Rockwood. See the Gothic mansion decked in festive decor ...

Jersey Museum is hosting a "living history" event showcasing how Victorians would have celebrated Christmas in the island. The event features characters from Victorian times and the building also ...

A Christmas lunch turned deadly after a teenager consumed more than a dozen alcoholic drinks, a coronial inquest has found.

But what about the food eaten at the Victorian dinner table, beyond the (now) traditional turkey? These three recipes, which are both familiar and different to the Christmas menu we now know and ...

A Victorian-themed Christmas event is returning to Hull later this month. The event in the Old Town area on 23 and 24 November, between 11:00 and 16:00 GMT, is expected to feature costumed ...

Sherbrooke Village has made a funding request to the Municipality of the District of St. Mary’s for A Victorian Christmas, formerly known as the Old-Fashioned Christmas (OFC), which ...

"We're also having a go at writing with dip pens as well which Victorian people would have been using at school." Schoolchildren had the chance to write Christmas cards using traditional feather ...

CALLS have been made to extend Worcester's Victorian Christmas Fayre to keep up the pre-Christmas boom the popular event gives local shops. Several firms have told the Worcester News this year ...

In the three episodes of the Christmas specials, Alex, Peter and Ruth return to the Shropshire farm to celebrate a traditional Victorian Christmas. There's an enormous amount of farm work and new ...