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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.

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Icon for the London 2010: Festival of StampsLondon 2010: Festival of Stamps

Find out more about this exciting year-long programme of exhibitions, events and activities to mark the centenary of the accession of George V, the philatelist king.

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The first port of call for all press enquiries, the Press includes Contact details, Events, Press releases, Press images, Press quotes, General information.

 

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Visit the BPMA's blog on Wordpress for news, views and insights into postal history and philately.

 

The Penny Black Changed the World logoPhillips Collection online

The Penny Black Changed the World project means that 2,000 album pages from the Phillips Collection of Victorian philately are now online; plus a free KS2 education pack for teaching Victorian history.

 

Royal Mail Group War Memorials DatabaseRoyal Mail Group War Memorials Database

Search a catalogue of all war memorials on Royal Mail premises. Royal Mail is thought to be the second largest custodian of war memorials in Britain, behind only the Church.

BPMA on FlickrBPMA on Flickr

View the BPMA's latest photos on Flickr, including our sets Last Post: Remembering the First World War, Moving the Mail: Horses to Horsepower and Blists Hill Victorian Post Office.

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Provides a summary of essential information about BPMA for French users, German users, Spanish users, and Welsh users

External links

Royal MailRoyal Mail

Use the Royal Mail website for postcodes, delivery information, stamps to buy.

Post OfficePost Office

For the little things that make the big things happen.

Culture 24Culture 24

Britain's virtual museum. Event listings, heritage trails and more.

News

  • Temporary Closure of the British Postal Museum & Archive Search Room

    03 July 2009

    The Search Room at The British Postal Museum & Archive will close from 29 June to allow urgent work to take place on our air conditioning system.

  • GPO Film Unit DVD release!

    03 July 2009

    July 6th sees the release of the final in the series of three compilation DVD's featuring work by the GPO Film Unit.

  • Women, War, popular memory and social reconstruction in Britain, 1914-45

    02 July 2009

    Call for Papers: Postgraduate Conference,16 September 2009, British Postal Museum and Archive, London. War had a profound effect on British politics and society, changing its social, political and economic dynamics, and blurring the previously well-defined gender distinctions of patriarchal society. Significantly, it changed women’s societal position immensely.

  • Delivering the Mail: A BPMA stamp sheet

    16 June 2009

    Adrian Bradbury and the BPMA have collaborated on a new stamp sheet entitled Delivering the Mail, which traces the early history of the British postal system. The sheet is limited to 1000 and £1 from each sheet sold will support the BPMA's charitable activity, such as education, outreach and access. This is the first in a series of stamp sheets to be issued annually by Adrian Bradbury in association with the BPMA.

  • BPMA assists BBC Radio 4

    12 June 2009

    The BPMA has assisted the radio programme 'Punt PI' in its quest to find out whether TV detector vans were an urban myth. The programme hosted by comedian Steve Punt and featuring interviews with several BPMA staff airs on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday 13 June at 10:30am.

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