Penny Postage
Documents (from both official and private sources) relating to the great Penny Postage reforms of 1840 and their aftermath. See also Parliamentary Reports.
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The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the History of Penny Postage (Vol. 1)
Sir Rowland Hill and George Birkbeck Hill
[600pp, 33MB, 1880]
The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the History of Penny Postage (Vol. 2)
Sir Rowland Hill and George Birkbeck Hill
[534pp, 37MB, 1880]
Post Office Reform, its Importance and Practicability (1st edn)
Rowland Hill
[89pp, 2.7MB, 1837]
The famous pamphlet that started it all!
Post Office Reform, its Importance and Practicability (3rd edn)
Rowland Hill
[109pp, 4.2MB, 1837]
Later edition with foreword concerning its reception
Rowland Hill's letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer
[12pp, 265KB, 1839]
The Justice and Profit of a Uniform Penny Postage
British & Foreign Review
[56pp, 4.6MB, 1839]
Commentary etc extracted from the magazine
The State and Prospects of Penny Postage
Rowland Hill
[91pp, 4.5MB, 1843]
Administration of the Post Office, from the introduction of Hill's plan to the present time
[232pp, 9.0MB, 1844]
The Post Office of Fifty Years Ago
[176pp, 7.0MB, 1887]
Also contains the full text of Hill's original 1837 pamphlet
Sir Rowland Hill - the story of a great reform, told by his daughter
Eleanor C.Smyth
[393pp, 6.9MB, 1907]
How James Chalmers saved the penny postage scheme
Patrick Chalmers
[80pp, 5.1MB, 1890]
The main "Chalmers-Hill controversy" partisan!
Robert Wallace MP and James Chalmers, the Scottish postal reformers
Patrick Chalmers
[86pp, 3.6MB, 1890]
The main "Chalmers-Hill controversy" partisan!
Account of the Celebration of the Jubilee of Uniform Inland Penny Postage
[384pp, 17.0MB, 1891]
The celebrations in the Guildhall, South Kensington, and the provinces