The British Postal Museum and Archive Podcast
Latest Episodes
Ashley March - Dear Santa: The History of Writing to Father Christmas
Why do we write to Saint Nick? How did it come to…
James Addison - Pushing the Envelope
Graphic designer James Addison has been testing t…
Julian Sayarer - Letters from a Long Road
For 169 days in 2009 Julian Sayarer cycled 110 mi…
Joanna Espin - Unstitching the Uniform
Accompanying PowerPoint to talk given on 26 March…
Maria Vasquez Aguilar - 'No one writes to the General’
11 September 1973 saw the military overthrow of t…
Ben Copsey
Ben Copsey of the Peace Pledge Union looks at the lives of the 200 Conscientious Objectors employed by the Post Office during the First World War.
Emma Harper
Curator Emma Harper explores the role of the Post Office in the First World War as both messenger and censor through letters exchanged between soldiers and their loved ones.
Graham Mark
his talk explores how the scale of the First World War forced the Post Office to adopt a number of previously unheard of practices including the censorship of mail both at home and on the Front Lines.