Based on a great deal of new original research by Douglas N. Muir, Curator of Philately at the BPMA, George V and the GPO: Stamps, Conflict and Creativity, explains how the stamps of George V came about and how they were produced.

It also describes the postal history of the period from the exciting developments in airmail through to the work of the Post Office in wartime. Transport includes the new Post Office Underground Railway.

Innovation in art and design are emphasised in the text on the Post Office commissioning posters, and the famous GPO Film Unit.

In all areas a lot of information and new illustrations are published for the first time.

This book ties in with the Empire Mail: George V and the GPO exhibition

Other publications by Douglas N. Muir include Postal Reform and the Penny Black: A New Appreciation and A Timeless Classic: The Evolution of Machin's Icon