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It鈥檚 thanks to the Victorians that the tradition of sending Christmas cards exists.

London鈥檚 Victoria & Albert Museum has signed an agreement with the French city of Bayeux that will see them work together on scholarship surrounding the Bayeux Tapestry.

May we all be as merry as that boozy child.

Tim Travis, curator of prints at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, shares in an email about how Henry Cole, a civil servant and the Victoria and Albert Museum鈥檚 founding director, commissioned the first Christmas card.

The world's first printed Christmas card has gone on display at London's Charles Dickens Museum, just in time for the start of the festive season.

鈥楾was the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a... dead robin? No, I must be thinking of Victorian Christmas cards.

鈥樷�淐ome,鈥� said my friend Professor Omnium, one clear morning, 鈥渓et us take an excursion round the world! [鈥�] Go round the world with me here in London.鈥濃��

The V&A鈥檚 Photography Centre opens four new whopping great galleries drawing on a vast collection of over 800,000 photographs. Here鈥檚 a selection of them