Her Majesty's Mails
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William Lewins gives an account of the British Post-Office, both its history and its everyday working, in this 1864 volume, with an appendix. He meant it as the first of a series on the revenue departments of the country, and he notes that no continuous history of English postal affairs could be found.
The preface singles out the struggle that led to the penny-post reform and the letter-opening of 1844. Much of the second division first ran in Chambers's Journal and the Book of Days. A line from Lord Macaulay on the post-office as a triumph of civilization sits on the title page.
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- Author
- William Lewins
- Reading time
- About 8 hours
- Pages
- 249
- Language
- English
- Genre
- European History
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