{"id":864,"date":"2019-03-11T09:48:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T09:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/?p=864"},"modified":"2019-11-12T09:57:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T09:57:51","slug":"11-december-a-victorian-christmas-the-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/2019\/03\/11\/11-december-a-victorian-christmas-the-va\/","title":{"rendered":"11 December: A Victorian Christmas @ the V&amp;A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/event\/GY3oA5YR\/lunchtime-lecture-a-victorian-christmas\">Lunchtime Lecture at the V&amp;A: A Victorian Christma<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/event\/GY3oA5YR\/lunchtime-lecture-a-victorian-christmas\">s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Victorians invented or perfected many of our most treasured Christmas traditions: Christmas cards, Christmas trees, and Christmas crackers can trace their popularity to the mid-nineteenth century. Fashion joined in the festive spirit, too, with designs and fabrics that made the most of the holiday mood. For this talk we&#8217;re joined by Rebecca Mitchell, editor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/fashioning-the-victorians-9781350023390\/\"><em>Fashioning the Victorians<\/em><\/a>, to explore the fads and fashions of the Victorian yuletide, from dresses to decorations.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-865\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2019\/11\/lunchtime-lecture-a-victorian-christmas_1920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2019\/11\/lunchtime-lecture-a-victorian-christmas_1920.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2019\/11\/lunchtime-lecture-a-victorian-christmas_1920-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2019\/11\/lunchtime-lecture-a-victorian-christmas_1920-768x359.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2019\/11\/lunchtime-lecture-a-victorian-christmas_1920-1024x479.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2019\/11\/lunchtime-lecture-a-victorian-christmas_1920-250x117.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lunchtime Lecture at the V&amp;A: A Victorian Christmas The Victorians invented or perfected many of our most treasured Christmas traditions: Christmas cards, Christmas trees, and Christmas crackers can trace their popularity to the mid-nineteenth century. Fashion joined in the festive spirit, too, with designs and fabrics that made the most of the holiday mood. For &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/2019\/03\/11\/11-december-a-victorian-christmas-the-va\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;11 December: A Victorian Christmas @ the V&amp;A&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}