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Of even more boxes and reams of pink tape…
Some of our regular blog readers may remember my previous blog post on the Museum Store audit. Since a year has passed since the start of the project, I thought I would add a quick update and share a...
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What the privatisation of Royal Mail means to us
Our Director Adrian Steel gives a historical perspective on today’s announcement that Royal Mail will soon be privatised. The human need to communicate is ever present. But to give a historical...
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Guest blog: Communicating Conflict Arts Award students
Meet guest bloggers Samiah and Shaima. Two of our Communicating Conflict Arts Award students from Haverstock School. Meet Samiah and Shaima – two students from Haverstock School. The Arts Award...
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Charles Dickens and Postal Communication with Dr Tony Williams
Cartoon from Punch’s Almanack for 1854 Charles Dickens was a prodigious letter writer as well as a writer in other forms. We now have available to us his letters, in twelve large volumes, as the...
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Guest blog: Arts Award students meet Danny Martin, contemporary war poet
Meet our latest guest bloggers Aldis and Max. Two more ‘Communicating Conflict’ Arts Award students from Haverstock School. Last week, the students were visited by Danny Martin, a former soldier and...
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Christmas through the post
With only a few days left until Christmas Day we have been collaborating on an exciting new exhibition that explores the fundamental importance of the post at Christmas time. Our festive exhibition,...
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Tenth Anniversary of the Final Traveling Post Office Journeys
Men stand in front of the first train coach used to sort mail on the North Eastern Railway. Today is the tenth anniversary of the last journeys of Royal Mail’s Travelling Post Offices. First used in...
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Crowdsourcing IWM paintings and BPMA images
The BPMA has been active on Historypin since last year and yesterday we hosted a Putting Art on the Map event with Historypin in the Search Room. This event focused on crowdsourcing information about...
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Last Post: Remembering the First World War
The First World War was a major turning point in the history of the Post Office. To mark the year of the centenary, our First World War exhibition, Last Post, is now open at Coalbrookdale Museum of...
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Royal Mail Archive added to UNESCO Memories of the World Register
Recently the BPMA has received some exciting news. The Royal Mail Archive, which we look after, has been added to UNESCO’s Memories of the World Register. The archive spans the years 1636 to 1969 and...
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