Christmas is a time for memories. The Victorian holiday was no different; in these articles, authors seek to share their memories with the younger generation.

Arctic Festivities (Leisure Hour, 1860)

Christmas celebrations aboard a ship in the Arctic.

What We Used to Do at Christmas, by Ruth Lamb (Girl's Own Paper, 1883)

Reminiscences of Christmas and New Years' traditions, such as first-footing -- and the fact that while the teller was in awe of her first gas-lights, her listeners, she says, will tell their children of the first time they saw electric lights!

Christmas Comes but Once a Year, by Gordon Stables, M.D., R.N. (Girl's Own Paper, 1889)

Some Christmas reminiscences, and tips on how to have a safe and healthy holiday.

In a Guard's Van: A Christmas Sketch (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1890)

Think of the efforts of our post office today to keep up with Christmas parcels; that was the duty of the railway guard in his van in Victorian days!

The Worries of a New Chum, by Rev. Frederick Hastings (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1890)

Christmas on the other side of the world -- in Australia, where one is more concerned with mosquitoes than snow!

Reminiscences of Christmas, by an Anglo-Canadian (Girl's Own Paper, 1891)

Reminiscences of Christmas in London and in Canada.

My Christmas Shopping, by Robert Burdette (Ladies' Home Journal, 1893)

A man's unhappy experiences at the holiday shops.

A Pioneer Christmas, by Hamlin Garland (Ladies' Home Journal, 1893)

Summer at Christmas-Tide [in Jamaica], by Julian Hawthorne (Century Magazine, 1897A)

Merry Christmas in the [New York] Tenements, by Jacob Riis

Christmas in the Army, by Horace Wyndham (The Strand, 1899B)

How the British Army celebrates the holiday.

Christmas at the Front, by W.B. Wollen, R.I. (Cassell's, 1900)

A reminiscence of Christmas at Modder River, South Africa.

• See also Christmas Around the World