Royal Mail : the post office since 1840

Author(s)

• Daunton, M. J. (Martin J.)
• Briggs, Asa

Bibliographic Information

Royal Mail : the post office since 1840

M.J. Daunton ; [foreword by Asa Briggs]

（Bloomsbury academic collections, . History . British history）

Bloomsbury, 2015

• : hb

Note

Reprint. Originally published: London : Athlone Press, 1985

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN for subser. "British history": 9781474241380

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword Asa Briggs Acknowledgements Preface PART I IMPROVEMENT AND EXPANSION 1 Rowland Hill: From Radical to Administrator 2 Mail Services 3 Financial Services: Profit or Welfare? PART II CARRYING THE MAIL 4 Rail and Road: The Inland Mail 5 Sea and Air: The Overseas Mail PART III WORKING FOR THE POST OFFICE 6 Workers and Wages 7 On the Establishment PART IV OFFICIALS AND POLITICIANS 8 Centre and Region 9 Autonomy and Control PART V EPILOGUE: THE POSTWAR WORLD 10 Retreat and Reform in the Postwar World Notes Index

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Details

• NCID: BB25274685
• ISBN:
  • 9781474241236
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 388 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 383.4941
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Great Britain. Post Office -- History
  • LCSH : Postal service -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Postal service -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB11561849