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The BPMA Handstamp Collection
by Freya Folåsen, Cataloguer (Collections) The British Postal Museum & Archive (BPMA) museum collection has just about any object type one can think of when it comes to the British postal service:...
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Morten Collection Object of the Month: January 2010
Each month, for ten months, we’ll be presenting an object from the Morten Collection on this blog. The Morten Collection is a nationally important postal history collection currently held at Bruce...
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Valued volunteer and postal historian retires
Recently one of our most highly valued volunteers, Mike Bament, retired, hanging up his tweezers for the last time. Mike has been volunteering at the BPMA for more than 20 years and is also a...
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New to our online catalogue
Over 4,000 descriptions were uploaded to the online catalogue last week, bringing the total of records available for public consultation to 87,635. The latest batch of records available include: From...
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‘Centuries of Innovation and Industry’ at Royal Mail Letters
An early pillar box on display at Rathbone Place by Emma Harper, Cataloguer (Collections) Recently a small display of objects from the BPMA’s collection was installed in the new reception area of Royal...
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Postal Uniforms: 1855
by Claire McHugh, Cataloguer (Collections) To continue from my last blog on early postal uniforms, the adoption in 1840 of a Uniform Penny Post and other related reforms initiated by Rowland Hill...
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Cruchley’s Postal District Map, 1859
Each month we present an object from the Morten Collection on this blog. The Morten Collection is a nationally important postal history collection currently held at Bruce Castle, Tottenham. As part of...
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Rowland Hill & the Penny Black
Rowland Hill, the great postal reformer, was born in Kidderminster, near Birmingham, in 1795. Originally an educationalist, it was in 1837 that he published his seminal pamphlet Post Office Reform; Its...
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The Last Post
The final episode of The Peoples Post reminded us of some of the postal service’s great innovations. These included William Dockwra’s Penny Post, the development of the Mail Coach system, Rowland...
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TALK: Glad Tidings: A history of the Christmas card
For our annual Christmas talk, we are welcoming Curator Steph Mastoris of the National Waterfront Museum. As a social history curator he has been fascinated for over two decades by the custom of...
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