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The British Postal Museum & Archive

http://postalheritage.wordpress.com/

British postal communications helped to shape the modern world. The British Postal Museum & Archive illuminates the lives of people in the Post Office, the messages carried by Royal Mail, the history we all share. Our history through the post.

• Added on: Jul 31st, 2009
• Country: United Kingdom
• Language: English

• Author: postalheritage
• Listed in: Cultural History
• Tags: stamps philately stamp collecting british history postal history postal museum

Recent Posts

• History of the Great Western Railway site – BPMA’s new home

  Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 10:57 in victorian, railway, wiltshire, english heritage, locomotive, gwr, swindon, isambard kingdom brunel, great western railway, british rail, evening star, vale of the white horse

  Swindon is largest town in Wiltshire with a population over 170,000.  However, before 1840 Swindon was a market town serving the surrounding dairy farms with fewer than 2500 inhabitants.  Its growth and population boom can be seen as a direct resul...

• ‘Post early for Christmas’ a publicity campaign that was ‘too successful’

  Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 10:24 in collection, catalogue, philatelic

  ‘Notice intended for display on a pillar box, 1931’ (POST 33/3169) Even prior to the creation of the Public Relations Department in 1934, there was a vast amount of publicity generated with regard to ‘Christmas arrangements’ for the postal se...

• BPMA wins Visit London award

  Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 09:03 in archive, accessible tourism, bt visit london award

  On 5 November, BPMA scooped the BT Visit London Bronze Award for Accessible Tourism 2009. Particular focus of our entry was online provision (such as the Blog and Flickr), Search Room user support, and steps taken to develop accessible events in the...

• The Accession Stamp issue of Edward VIII

  Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 04:32 in stamps, philately, post office, george v, gpo, edward viii, philatelic, stamp design, h j brown, hugh cecil, stamp artwork project

  by Adam Reynolds, Project Archivist (Stamp Artwork) Recent months have seen the online publication of all philatelic artwork relating to the reign of King Edward VIII, as part of the ongoing Stamp Artwork Project at the BPMA. Despite the brevity of E...

• 2009 Christmas Stamps

  Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 03:52 in christmas, stamps, philately, post office, bethlehem, gpo, royal mail, postage stamps, andrew ross, philatelic, canterbury cathedral, stained-glass windows

  Royal Mail has today released this year’s Christmas stamps, a set of seven adhesive stamps designed by Andrew Ross, featuring stained-glass windows produced in the 19th Century. It has generally been the tradition for British Christmas stamps to al...

• New Director for the BPMA

  Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 19:01 in wellcome trust, university college london, bpma, adrian steel, london metropolitan archives, professor brian goodey, reuters archive, society of archivists, the british postal museum & archive

  Dr Adrian Steel Dr Adrian Steel has been appointed as the new Director of The British Postal Museum & Archive with immediate effect. The Director will be responsible for the leadership and the strategic development and direction of the BPMA. Bria...

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