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BRITISH CENSORSHIP OF CIVIL MAILS DURING WORLD WAR 1 (1914-1919)
By GRAHAM MARK FRPS.L |
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The Author has tackled a subject that has never been covered in this detail before; the references and bibliography in annexe show the depth of his research. Starting with an introduction to censorship he goes on to describe the objectives and legal aspects and how the mails are censored. Successive chapters deal with the treatment of mail to and from the enemy, neutral and allied countries in different spheres of the world, country by country. Inland mail is also covered as is prisoner of war and internees mail. Each special category of mail is described. All of the censor’s slips, labels and handstamps are illustrated as are a large number of covers relevant to the text. Appendices give historical and political background and there is an abstract of Post Office circulars. This is an important and highly readable book for the postal and social historian dealing with the problems of communication during the difficult and dark time of war. |
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287 pages B/W illustrations throughout. Card cover. Published 2000.
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BRITISH INDIA POSTAL STATIONERY By DEREK LANG
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This is an illustrated history and listing of postal stationery issued in India up to Independence in 1947. It is the culmination of over 30 years research which resulted in the four volume work “The guide to the postal stationery of India”. Since then the amount of new information and feed-back has made it possible to produce this updated and fresh study of the subject. It is the seminal work with chapters covering postcards, envelopes, newspaper wrappers, Victorian letter sheets, air letter sheets, airgraphs, telegraph forms and a chapter on post-Independence. A final chapter covers collecting extensions including specimens, dies, punches, essays and proofs, bands, labels and parcel wrappers used abroad and by the states. The book is profusely illustrated and cross-indexed with the Higgins & Gage and Jain reference numbers.
The original four volume version on which this is based was awarded a Bronze medal at London 1980 and a Silver at India International Exhibition 1980. Bronze and Silver Bronze medals were awarded at the British Philatelc Federation in 1979 and 198
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“…the Author is to be congratulated on producing such a detailed work to add to his already impressive list of books on Indian Postal Stationery” London Philatelist October 1998.
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222 pages. B/W illustrations Card covers. Published 1997
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EXPRESS MAIL, AFTER PACKETS and LATE FEES in INDIA before 1870
by MAX SMITH and ROBERT JOHNSON
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The book presents original information into a hitherto unresearched field using data from the Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections in the British Library. It describes the Overland mail within India particularly between Bombay, Calcutta and Madras and the ways by which a sender could get mail across India quickly in either direction. The period covered is from about 1840 up to about 1870, as mail cart and railway services gradually took over carriage of the Overland mail. For the first time, the Express, After Packet and Late Fee services and charges are described from official sources and their successes and failures explained.
A great deal of background information is also provided in appendices, which reproduce many extracts from original documents including the Post Office Annual Reports of the period. These discuss the changing routes of the Overland mail across India and the effects on postal services of the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857-58. Other appendices give the dates and closing times of Expresses to and from Bombay and the After Packet from Calcutta in connection with the Overland mail and the growth of the railway system. The final appendix discusses the service Thomas Waghorn provided across Egypt between the Mediteranean and the Red Sea.
291 pages(A4), profusely illustrated in B/W with 8 colour plates. Card cover. Published in 2008.
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291 pages (A4), profusely illustrated in B/W with 8 colour plates. Card cover. Published in 2008.
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A POSTAL HISTORY OF THE PRISONERS OF WAR AND CIVILIAN INTERNEES IN EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR - Volume 1 Singapore and Malaya 1942 – 1945 The Changi Connection By DAVID TETT
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Volume 2 Dutch East Indies 1942-1946 Paradise Lost
published by the author in 2003 and
Volume 3 Burma, Thailand and Indochina. 1942-1946. The Railway, the River and the Bridge. Published by BFA Publishing, 2005
see www.fepowmail.com for price and how to purchase
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This is the first of three volumes to deal with the subject of the main title.
The author combines the general history of the period with personal references from individual correspondences to give detailed context to the postal arrangements for POWs and internees into and out of Singapore and Malaya.
The chapters in the book are: Prelude to the Captivity; The Prison Camps; The mails that were returned; At home; The Bureau of Record and Enquiry; Three personal postal histories; The cards from POWs in Singapore; The mail to Civilian Internees in Singapore; Mails to those who were not interned; Unauthorised mails; Japanese Postal Stationery; Some went home.
There are seven Appendices dealing with detailed aspects of the postal history such as cards and covers addressed to POWs in Malaya and Singapore and Australian Red Cross Society Directions for Mail.
There is a good index and bibliography.
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| “... this is a goldmine of a book....the stuff of history....a priceless and universal appendix to so many singular stories" Martin Bell |
387 pages. B/W illustrations. Hard bound with colour dustjacket. Printed 2002. Price £35 plus postage and packing.
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PIGEON MAIL THROUGH HISTORY By SALVADOR BOFARULL
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This book deals with the history of carrying messages and mail by carrier pigeon.
It covers The Ancient World; The Medieval Near East; Europe before 1867; The Franco Prussian war 1870 – 1871; America and Europe before 1914; European Colonies and Dominions; Russia; The First World War; The period between the First and Second World wars; The Second World war and the period after 1945.
There is an extensive bibliography and there is an index to both text and the many illustrations.
The book breaks new ground in its field and reviews in the UK and abroad have brought to the author recognition for his research.
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Canada, China
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Flanders ,France
German East Africa
Greece, Greenland
Hungary, India
Italian Colonies
Italy, Japan
Middle East,
New Zealand, Nigeria
Persia, Poland
Roman Empire
Russia, Sierra Leone
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Spain, Sweden
Switzerland
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