Valentine's Day is almost here, but it wasn't always the heart-filled, card-giving, chocolate-gifting holiday we know today. Here's everything you should know about the history of the beloved ...

Now in the US, around 145 million Valentine's Day cards are exchanged each year ... campaigns are only possible thanks to a long history of Valentine's traditions, which vary around the world.

Bearing cards, flowers, chocolates and poetry, lovers have always swooned on Valentine’s Day as cherubs circled overhead. Right? Or is the history darker, marked by Roman bacchanalia ...

Valentine’s Day has a history much more complex than many realize ... while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London to his wife. This early card marked the beginning of a custom that would ...

It includes a verse printed around the edge: "Since on this ever Happy day, All Nature's full of Love and Play Yet harmless still if my design, 'Tis but to be your Valentine." The card was sent by ...

Most people celebrate by giving a card to someone special they ... and so the letter became the very first Valentine’s Day letter in history. The story of St Valentine was passed down through ...