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Steve Webb: Hello, this is day
11 of the 2022 encore of the

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2009 season of the Lifespring
Why Christmas Show, hosted by

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James Cooper, creator of
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Godcaster, Steve Webb. Welcome.
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James Cooper: Hello, and welcome
to day number 11 of the

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Lifespring Why Christmas Show.
Today we're going to be taking a

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quick look at Christmas cards.
I'm sure you might have had some

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arrive already. But why do we
send them to each other? Well,

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it started back in 1843 with a
British civil servant called Sir

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Henry Cole. He worked for the
public post office and three

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years earlier had helped
introduce a cheaper way of

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sending things through the post.
He came up with the idea with an

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artist friend of his called John
Hoesley. In 1843, the same year

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that Charles Dickens' book A
Christmas Carol was published,

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they printed 1000 of the first
Christmas cards and sold them

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for a shilling or five pence
each. Cards didn't become

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popular in the States until in
1875 a printer called Louis

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Pring started mass producing
them so normal people could

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afford them. By the early 1900s
cards had become popular all

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over Europe, especially in
Germany, as well as featuring

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the snowy scenes that we
associate with Christmas cards

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today. Only cards also had some
very unusual things on them,

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including dancing frogs, and
little angels, and even some

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rather weird strange looking
insects. So when you're opening

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your cards, give a thought back
to Sir Henry Cole, the father of

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their Christmas card. If you'd
like to know more about them,

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then head over to
www.whychristmas.com