Christmas Cards
Sending a little Christmas love
Hannah Rodgers wants more people to receive Christmas cards - especially people who, for whatever reason, wouldn't get too many Christmas cards otherwise. So she set up a campaign: Sending Love. Audio
Christmas cards and letter writing not yet dead
Christmas cards are rare nowadays, so too letters, particularly from friends and family. Most communication is via social media, emails or texting. Audio
Hannah Rodgers: sending love to the lonely this Christmas
Hannah Rodgers and her son Jayden were on a “100 days of kindness” challenge when the Sending Love campaign was created. The idea was to send cards to people who were on their own for Christmas or… Audio
Peter Gilderdale: 19th-century Kiwi Christmas cards
Researcher Peter Gilderdale says Christmas cards were a relatively late entry to our colonial Christmas tradition - that they only established themselves in the 1860s and didn't become really popular… Audio
Sending Season's Greetings in a card a dying tradition
Feeling a little bereft on the Christmas card front? You are not alone. Audio