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A brief history of the Post Office in the UK
From Royal Mail to General Post Office (GPO) and beyond.
Post Office
Invisible Labour: The Women Who Kept Wartime Telecommunications Running
During the Second World War, women’s behind-the-scenes work in telecommunications was vital to the war effort. What can their experiences tell us about office work for women in the postal service at the time?
Archive & Collections
Human Stories
King George V: The Stamp Collector
King George V is renowned in philatelic circles as a passionate stamp enthusiast. His love for stamp collecting earned him the nickname 'The Collector King', and his legacy continues to be appreciated in the world of philately today.
Archive & Collections
Stamps
Behind the Lens: Women in the Airgraph Service
During the Second World War, sending and delivering mail became increasingly difficult. With routes across the Mediterranean compromised, the General Post Office (GPO) sought a new way to connect Britain with its overseas forces.
Archive & Collections
Human Stories
What is a Stamp?
What are they, why do we use them, and how have they changed over time?
Archive & Collections
Stamps
Creating The Jolly Postman
Janet and Allan Ahlberg's The Jolly Postman or Other People’s Letters celebrates its 40th birthday in 2026 – but what inspired this much-loved children’s picture book?
Design
Exhibitions
The Pneumatic Railway
At the start of the 20th century, congestion on the streets of London, combined with poor weather and pollution meant moving post could be slow and dangerous. The Post Office started to explore more efficient solutions.
Archive & Collections
Post Office
Acts of Resistance Against Slavery
Dollar fo' Dollar Culture and History Committee, one of our Voices of Resistance exhibition partners, talk about resistance against enslavement and how these acts can be commemorated today.
Human Stories
Slavery, Abolition and Steam Packet Ships
We explore how two White men, central to the development of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, were involved in smear campaigns against two Black abolition leaders, Robert Wedderburn and Mary Prince, as part of their efforts to maintain slavery. 
Exhibitions
Human Stories
Meet the Maker: MogCherie
We chatted to Illustrator MogCherie, ahead of World Postcard Day, about their process, inspiration, and love of Postcrossing.
Design
Myths and Legends on stamps
We explore the stamps that celebrate fantasy authors such as C.S Lewis and J.R.R Tolkien, and the myths and legends that inspired their greatest works
Delivering the Post: The Beginning of the Postal Network
Before Rowland Hill introduced the world’s first postage stamp in 1840, the postal network had already been developing for over 300 years. But where did it all begin?
Archive & Collections
Post Office
A History of Mount Pleasant
Very close to The Postal Museum is the Royal Mail site of Mount Pleasant. It has been a major hub for the distribution of mail for over 130 years. However, before that the area had an infamous history.
Archive & Collections
Post Office
Shipwrecks and Steam Packet Ships
Shipping in the 1800s could be a dangerous undertaking. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company found their ships caught up in conflicts, political unrest, disease, storms, and at least one tsunami.
Exhibitions
Human Stories
Plantation Letters
Re-examined letters from plantation managers in Jamaica reveal glimpses of the lives of enslaved men, women, and children, whose lives we seek to honour.
Why did Mail Rail close?
On 31 May 2003 Mail Rail carried post underneath London for the last time, bringing the operation to an end after 76 years. Learn about the events leading up to that day here.
Archive & Collections
Post Office
VE Day at 80: A Love in Letters
To commemorate 80 years since the end of World War Two, we worked with Roseanna Rolph to piece together her grandparents' love story, as told in uncovered letters that span from The Blitz to the Battle of Normandy.
Human Stories
Meet the Maker: Tabara N’Diaye
Meet the artist behind La Basketry, created as a way to reconnect to her Senegalese roots and celebrate the traditional craft of basket weaving.
Design
Exhibitions
Human Stories
Letters from loved ones: the Browns and WWI
The First World War saw over 9.7 million military deaths, leaving mothers to mourn the loss of their sons. In this blog, we remember the bond between mother and son.
Human Stories
Post Office
The coal workers of St. Thomas
Royal Mail Steam Packet ships transported mail across the Atlantic via its main coaling site in St. Thomas. In this article we tell the story of the enslaved people who fueled them.
Exhibitions
Human Stories