The Penny Post

Author : Frank Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Postal rates
ISBN : OCLC:1336173051

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The Penny Post by Frank Staff Pdf

Author : Frank Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Postage-stamps
ISBN : UOM:39015032850003

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The Penny Post, 1680-1918 by Frank Staff Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Christian literature, English
ISBN : OXFORD:555027938

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The Penny Post by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021272338

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The Heart-Stone. [Reprinted from the “Penny Post.”] by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jack A. Gunn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781291911879

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The Edinburgh and District Penny Post - A Postal History Exhibit by Jack A. Gunn Pdf

The Edinburgh and District Penny Post has basically been ignored in print since the work of Auckland and Bonar in 1972. This book provides a detailed, award winning exhibit showcasing this area of long ignored British / Scottish postal history; it is the example to go with the theory of the Auckland / Bonar text. This book is important for those wanting to know more about the Edinburgh and Distrct Penny Post and for those wishing to examine how an award winning exhibit is displayed.

Author : Catherine J Golden
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813047881

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Posting It by Catherine J Golden Pdf

Although "snail mail" may seem old fashioned and outdated in the twenty-first century, Catherine Golden argues that the creation of the Penny Post in Victorian England was just as revolutionary in its time as e-mail and text messages are today. Until Queen Victoria instituted the Postal Reform Act of 1839, mail was a luxury affordable only by the rich. Allowing anyone, from any social class, to send a letter anywhere in the country for only a penny had multiple and profound cultural impacts. Golden demonstrates how cheap postage--which was quickly adopted in other countries--led to a postal "network" that can be viewed as a forerunner of computer-mediated communications. Indeed, the revolution in letter writing of the nineteenth century led to blackmail, frauds, unsolicited mass mailings, and junk mail--problems that remain with us today.

Author : Duncan Campbell-Smith
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141973227

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Masters of the Post by Duncan Campbell-Smith Pdf

The origins of the Post Office go back to the early years of the Tudor monarchy: Brian Tuke, a former King's Bailiff in Sandwich, was acknowledged as the first 'Master of the Posts' by Cardinal Wolsey in 1512, and went on to build up a network of 'postmasters' across England for Henry VIII. Over the following five hundred years the Royal Mail expanded to an unimaginable degree to become the largest employer in the country, and the face of the British state for most people in their everyday lives. But it also faced the demands of an increasingly commercial marketplace. With the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979, the possibility of privatising the Royal Mail has prompted passionate arguments - and has added immeasurably to the difficulties of running it. In charting the whole of this extraordinary story, Duncan Campbell-Smith recounts a series of remarkable tales, including how postal engineers built the first programmable computer for the wartime code-breakers of Bletchley Park and how the Royal Mail managed to successfully continue delivering post to the front lines during two world wars, but also how they failed to avert the Great Train Robbery of 1963. He brings to life many of the dominant personalities in the Royal Mail's history - from Rowland Hill, who imposed a uniform penny post and set the great Victorian expansion on its way, to Tony Benn who championed the modernisation of the service in the 1960s and Tom Jackson who led the postal workers' biggest union through fifteen frequently stormy years up to 1982. This is the first complete history of the Royal Mail up to the present day, based on its comprehensive archives, and including the first detailed account of the past half-century of Britain's postal history, made possible by privileged access to confidential records. Today's debate over the future of the Royal Mail is shown to be just the ;atest chapter in a centuries-old conflict between its roles raising revenue and serving the public. Will its employees remain, like Brian Tuke's postmasters, servants of the Crown? This book could hardly appear at a more timely moment.

Author : Joseph Clarence Hemmeon
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547592068

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The History of the British Post Office by Joseph Clarence Hemmeon Pdf

"The History of the British Post Office" by Joseph Clarence Hemmeon. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Karen Wallace
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-27
Category : Postage stamps
ISBN : 0749635444

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Penny Post Boy by Karen Wallace Pdf

Penny Post Boy is an exciting tale about a young boy, Sam, joining the Post Office during the Victorian era and at a time of the introduction of the Penny Black stamp. Letters and stamps have been going missing and Sam sets about solving the mystery.'

Author : Sir Rowland Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Postal service
ISBN : OXFORD:N11620167

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Post Office Reform by Sir Rowland Hill Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555095516

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Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Pdf

Author : Louise Penny
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466873681

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Glass Houses by Louise Penny Pdf

An instant New York Times Bestseller and August 2017 LibraryReads pick! “Penny’s absorbing, intricately plotted 13th Gamache novel proves she only gets better at pursuing dark truths with compassion and grace.” —PEOPLE “Louise Penny wrote the book on escapist mysteries.” —The New York Times Book Review “You won't want Louise Penny's latest to end....Any plot summary of Penny’s novels inevitably falls short of conveying the dark magic of this series.... It takes nerve and skill — as well as heart — to write mysteries like this. ‘Glass Houses,’ along with many of the other Gamache books, is so compelling that, for the space of reading it, you may well feel that much of what’s going on in the world outside the novel is ‘just noise.’” —Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold November day, Armand Gamache and the rest of the villagers are at first curious. Then wary. Through rain and sleet, the figure stands unmoving, staring ahead. From the moment its shadow falls over the village, Gamache, now Chief Superintendent of the Sûreté du Québec, suspects the creature has deep roots and a dark purpose. Yet he does nothing. What can he do? Only watch and wait. And hope his mounting fears are not realized. But when the figure vanishes overnight and a body is discovered, it falls to Gamache to discover if a debt has been paid or levied. Months later, on a steamy July day as the trial for the accused begins in Montréal, Chief Superintendent Gamache continues to struggle with actions he set in motion that bitter November, from which there is no going back. More than the accused is on trial. Gamache’s own conscience is standing in judgment. In Glass Houses, her latest utterly gripping book, number-one New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny shatters the conventions of the crime novel to explore what Gandhi called the court of conscience. A court that supersedes all others.

Author : Elihu BURRITT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017362552

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Ocean Penny Postage; its necessity shown and its feasibilty demonstrated by Elihu BURRITT Pdf

Author : Kate Thomas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199755745

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Postal Pleasures by Kate Thomas Pdf

In 1889 uniformed post-boys were discovered moonlighting in a West End brothel frequented by men of the upper classes. "The Cleveland Street Scandal" erupted and Victorian Britain faced the possibility that the Post Office-a bureaucratic backbone of nation and empire-was inspiring and servicing subversive sexual behavior. However, the unlikely alliance between sex and the postal service was not exactly the news the sensational press made it out to be. Postal Pleasures explores the relationship between illicit sex and the Royal Mail from reforms initiated in 1840 up to the imperial end of the nineteenth century. With a combination of historical details and literary analyses, Kate Thomas illustrates how the postal network, its uniformed employees, and its material trappings-envelopes, postmarks, stamps-were used to signal and circulate sexual intrigue. For many, the idea of an envelope promiscuously jostling its neighbors in a post boy's bag, or the notion that secrets passed through the eyes and fingers of telegraph girls, was more stimulating than the actual contents of correspondence. Writers like Anthony Trollope, Eliza Lynn Lynton, Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, and others, invoked the postal system as both an instrument and a metaphor for sexual relations that crossed and double-crossed lines of class, marriage, and heterosexuality. Postal Pleasures adds a new dimension to studies of the era as it uncovers the unlikely linkage between the Victorian Post Office and the queer networks it inspired.

Author : Eryn Lynum
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493413447

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936 Pennies by Eryn Lynum Pdf

Make the Most of Your Time with Your Children On the day of their baby dedication, Eryn and her husband were given a jar of 936 pennies. The jar contained a penny for every week they would raise their child until graduation, and they were instructed to remove one penny each Sunday as a reminder, placing it into another jar as an investment. At some point every parent realizes time is moving swiftly, and they ask themselves, How am I investing in my child? Through personal stories and biblical examples, 936 Pennies will help you discover how to capture time and use it to its fullest potential, replacing guilt and regrets with freedom. Meanwhile, your kids will see how simple choices, like putting the cell phone down and going on a family hike, will make all the difference. Together you will stretch time and make it richer. Craft a family legacy in tune with God's heartbeat as you capture a new vision for your children and learn the best ways to spend your pennies.