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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
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
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
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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
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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
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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
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The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
In the 1800s, a steam shipping company formed, carrying mail around the world. Its operations exploited enslaved people on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas, by forcing them to re-fuel the ships.
Exhibitions
Human Stories
David Gentleman: artist and stamp designer
Learn about one of the most distinguished and prolific figures in British stamp design history.
Archive & Collections
Human Stories
Stamps
Queer letters in history
The secret letters of Gentleman Jack.
Human Stories
Post Office
Exploring The Postal Museum’s Archive
Learn more about how you can make use of our Archive with this first-hand experience from volunteer Cyril.
Archive & Collections
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Post Office
WWI Field Service Postcard
War separates loved ones and leaves those at home desperate for information. The introduction of a small postcard with limited text sought to alleviate this worry.
Archive & Collections
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Love on the frontline: letters between lovers in World War Two. Part 2
Curator Yupeng traces Jimmy and Freda’s love story by exploring their correspondence during the Second World War.
Archive & Collections
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Post Office
Love on the frontline: letters between lovers in World War Two. Part 1
Curator Yupeng traces Jimmy and Freda’s love story by exploring their correspondence during the Second World War.
Archive & Collections
Human Stories
Post Office
How did Jane Austen write her letters?
To commemorate Jane Austen’s death over 200 years ago, Archive Assistant Mathilde explores Austen’s private letters and what they tell us about postal history.
Archive & Collections
Human Stories
Post Office
Stamps
Meet the Maker: Sakina Saïdi
Exploring Ramadan and Eid greetings card design with artist Sakina Saïdi
Archive & Collections
Design
Human Stories
Telegram Messengers
Archivist Susannah uncovers how Telegram Messengers went about their daily duties by exploring one of their first-hand accounts.
Archive & Collections
Exhibitions
Human Stories
Post Office
Meet the Maker: Onjali Q Raúf
Meet award-winning children's writer Onjali Q Raúf and learn all about her new book The Letter with the Golden Stamp.
Human Stories
Post Office
Stamps