Masters of the Post: A Complete History of the Royal Mail
Masters of the Post - Published 3rd November 2011
From coverage of Sir Rowland Hill, father of the "Penny Post" which opened up cheap and efficient nationwide communication for the masses to Labour Minister Tony Benn who championed innovation and modernisation during the sixties - From the story of the postal engineers who helped to build the worlds first programmable computer used by the wartime code-breakers at Bletchley Park to the security staff who didn't manage to prevent the Great Train Robbery. The book promises to be a must read for anyone interested in any aspect of British postal history.
The concluding pages of the book features the passionate debate over potential privatization and the uncertain future of the Royal Mail which, as the book promises to illustrate, has been a regular situation for the GPO and Royal Mail to be in.
Due to be published 3rd November 2011.
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