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Royal Mail : the history of the post office since 1840 / Martin J. Daunton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Daunton, M. J. (Martin J.), author.
- Series:
- History: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
- History: Bloomsbury Academic collections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain. Post Office--History.
- Great Britain.
- Postal service--Great Britain--History.
- Postal service.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (418 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, 1985.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "The history of the post office involves many of the most significant themes in the social, economic and political history of Britain. Daunton traces the development of the post office as an institution and as a business in the 19th and 20th centuries and places the debates surrounding its history, performances and failings in a longer historical perspective and in the broader context of British national history."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Contents:
- Part I. Improvement and expansion
- Part II. Carrying the mail
- Part III. Working for the post office
- Part IV. Officials and politicians
- Part V. Epilogue: The postwar world.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781474284967
- 1474284965
- 9781474241243
- 1474241247
- OCLC:
- 1057789779
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