Free - drop in!
Every day from Monday 19 December - Thursday 22 December 2022 from 2pm - 4pm
Be inspired to make your own cards from the vintage crafting materials supplied. Materials (including glue, scissors and replica cards) will be available in our main space for you to pick up and make.
Take a look round the display of cards for inspiration too!
We often think of the Victorians as very religious, proper and prudish, but many of the cards they designed and sent to each other paint a very different picture. Far from the traditional wintery scenes or festivities we might expect to see. Many of the cards seem quite unseasonal and peculiar to us today, often humorous and almost never with manger scenes, shepherds or angels. Flowers, animals, and people dressed in fashionable Victorian outfits were much more common. The cards show us the Victorians were not very different from us, using cards to celebrate and commemorate events, reinforce family ties, convey emotions and ‘make memories’.
This session is part of the project “Celebrations: Victorian and Edwardian Greeting Cards” with Manchester Metropolitan University’s Special Collections Museum and the Long Nineteenth Century Network, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The project aims to make the Seddon Collection and its catalogue more accessible to all by engaging different communities in collections-based research.
To find out more visit:
www.mmu.ac.uk/special-collections-museum