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BPMA Events Programme 2010
Our 2010 Events Guide has just arrived in the office and is now available online. As usual the BPMA are hosting an exciting programme of Exhibitions, Walks, Discover Sessions, Talks and Tours. Many of… more →
The British Postal Museum & Archive
BPMA Events Programme 2010
postalheritage wrote 1 day ago: Our 2010 Events Guide has just arrived in the office and is now available online. As usual the BPMA … more →
Christmas post and gingerbread postmen from the Darwin 200 Stamp Zoo team
darwin200stampzoo wrote 2 days ago: Sweet talk, toy soldiers and postage stamps Happy Christmas and holidays from the Darwin Stamp Zoo … more →
The Morten Collection at Bruce Castle
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postalheritage wrote 1 week ago: by Bettina Trabant, Postal Heritage Officer, Bruce Castle Museum Greetings from Bruce Castle, Totten … more →
A Victorian time safari ... stamps and the secrets of cheap time travel revealed!
darwin200stampzoo wrote 1 week ago: the stamp that started it all - the Penny Black of 1840, Young Queen Victoria's head 1837 … more →
The Seedman of Rose Hill
kihm wrote 2 weeks ago: In 1887, at Rose Hill, in the southern part of the Town of Marcellus, Frank B. Mills began selling s … more →
The Victorians are not dead and gone! Celebrating the big and bearded Victorian Icons - from Darwin to Lear, a Future Festival of Nonsense
darwin200stampzoo wrote 2 weeks ago: Edward Lear's wit and works illustrated on a fabulous British UK Royal Mail 1988 issue As Darw … more →
A wild (stamp) night out in Newquay ... and plans for future nonsense.
darwin200stampzoo wrote 2 weeks ago: Explorers, scientists and many anniversaries are commemorated on stamps from Darwin to Neil Armstron … more →
The BPMA Handstamp Collection
postalheritage wrote 2 weeks ago: by Freya Folåsen, Cataloguer (Collections) The British Postal Museum & Archive (BPMA) museum col … more →
150 years since Darwin published his Origin of Species: our new Charles Darwin: A Celebration in Stamps book arrives
darwin200stampzoo wrote 1 month ago: Stamps, postmen, writing technology ( Victorian laptop!) and beautiful copperplate handwritten lette … more →
Watching the extinction of the Royal Mail? Charles Darwin, postal history, Postman Pat and a speedy exit from Cornwall
darwin200stampzoo wrote 1 month ago: The Devonport mail-coach of 1837 on a postcard from the Post Office Collection / National Postal Mus … more →
Livingston, Williams & Hunt
kihm wrote 2 months ago: The firm of Livingston, Williams & Hunt sold “dry goods” in Skaneateles from 1899 to … more →
World Post Day
ozavalina wrote 2 months ago: October 9 is celebrated as a World Post Day. On this day 135 years ago, in 1874, the Universal Posta … more →
Incense, 1903
kihm wrote 2 months ago: “Celebrating,” a postcard by Esther Hunt, 1903 … more →
Wealth of Postal History Information Found on Internet
fran adams wrote 2 months ago: An article by William F. Sharpe in Linn’s Stamps News, August 17, 2009 describes using the int … more →
Large Letters
kihm wrote 2 months ago: Published by Wm. Jubb Co., Syracuse, N.Y. … more →
40th Anniversary of the Post Office Act 1969
postalheritage wrote 2 months ago: On Tuesday 13th October we will be welcoming author and historian Duncan Campbell-Smith to the BPMA … more →
Human Letters: The Post Office and women’s suffrage
postalheritage wrote 2 months ago: Earlier this year Dr Katherine Rake, Director of the Fawcett Society spoke at the BPMA about women’s … more →
The First Mail Girl
kihm wrote 3 months ago: (August 2, 2000) I almost didn’t go out on the Mail Boat last weekend. I’d just been ou … more →
William J. Vredenburgh
kihm wrote 3 months ago: Much has been said about the wealth and prominence of Skaneateles residents and visitors, but none o … more →
