Postal Museum Publications

The Postal Museum looks after over 400 years of postal heritage. It combines the archives of Royal Mail Group PLC and Post Office Ltd, originally known as the Post Office Archives (POA) with the National Postal Museum (NPM), opened in 1969 at King Edward Building in London as a result of the collection of Victorian philately donated to the nation by Reginald M. Phillips. A collection of postal equipment, uniforms, vehicles and more was added over the years.

In 1998, the building was sold, and the NPM closed. The collections were retained and the NPM and POA combined in 2004 as an independent charitable trust as the British Postal Museum and Archive (BPMA). This was renamed The Postal Museum in 2016, and a new museum building opened in 2017 in Clerkenwell, London, near the Mount Pleasant Mail Centre.

This section consists of selected documents originally produced by the museum and archives under their various names, reproduced with permission. Some have been scanned from the original paper versions, others were downloadable as PDFs.

(For details of opening times etc please consult the current website, not these files!)

Post Office Archives Information Sheets 1984-88

Sheets on various topics originally issued by the Post Office Archives in the 1980s (scanned).

British Postal Museum and Archive Information Sheets 2005-09

Sheets on various topics originally issued by the British Postal Museum and Archive in the 2000s (as PDFs).

NPM and BPMA Exhibition Documents 1967-2015

Documents published by the NPM or BPMA from time to time in connection with exhibitions, often related to an anniversary, giving a longer look at a particular topic.

National Postal Museum Annual Reports 1988-96

These were printed annually from 1988 to 1998, under the title The Philatelic Year from 1988 to 1991, then Review from 1992 to 1998. A cumulative index for 1988-96 compiled by Jean Alexander appeared in the 1997-98 Review.

British Postal Museum and Archive Newsletters 2013-14

These were printed several times a year with updates from the museum and various articles.

Miscellaneous Postal Museum and Archives Documents 1969-2016

Assorted documents that do not fall into any of the above categories.