The British Postal Museum and Archive Podcast

The British Postal Museum and Archive Podcast


Latest Episodes

Ashley March - Dear Santa: The History of Writing to Father Christmas
December 12, 2015

Why do we write to Saint Nick? How did it come to…

James Addison - Pushing the Envelope
December 02, 2015

Graphic designer James Addison has been testing t…

Aaron Manning - A Noble War
November 03, 2015

Sir Anthony Eden is best known for his lion-heart…

Julian Sayarer - Letters from a Long Road
June 09, 2015

For 169 days in 2009 Julian Sayarer cycled 110 mi…

Julian Stray - 'My dear Tony...'
May 19, 2015

200 years ago a great Victorian novelist was born…

Joanna Espin - Unstitching the Uniform
March 31, 2015

Accompanying PowerPoint to talk given on 26 March…

Maria Vasquez Aguilar - 'No one writes to the General’
March 16, 2015

11 September 1973 saw the military overthrow of t…

Ben Copsey
November 17, 2014

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
October 23, 2014

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
October 23, 2014

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.