Simultaneous Development of Philately, Geology, and Palaeontology as a Result of the British Industrial Revolution

Part 9: References.

Money system of Great Britain in the 19th century A Family Story Tower Bridge CPI Inflation Calculator Pascal Bonenfant

Industrial Revolution in Great Britain World History A Family Story Tower Bridge

Social Reform in Great Britain in the 19th century Wikipedia National Archives UK

Postal System in Great Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries Dead Letter Office (Wikipedia) Frauds and abuse Hill, Rowland (1880). The Life of Sir Rowland Hill...and the History of Penny Postage, volume II. London. pp. 82–83. Joseph Ady Wikipedia New-cleckit dominie Bulletin No. 121 of Postal History Society, September-October 1962 Journal of the Association of Friends of the National Postal Museum, Volume 7 Number 3 Autumn 1998, p. 11 (91) - 17 (96) Life of Rowland Hill Joseph Ady My Current Rabbit Hole (YouTube video - NTSC presentation) Postal Rates 1801-1839 (GBPS) 1840-1968 (GBPS) Transatlantic-mail (Postal Museum of Smithsonian)

Postal Reform Smithsonian National Postal Museum Wikipedia Encyclopaedia Britannica BBC Postal Museum (PDF file) "Post Office Reform: Its Importance and Practicability", by Rowland Hill, published in London in 1837 (Google Books) Postage Act 1839: Wikipedia Penny Post: Wikipedia Uniform Penny Post: Wikipedia British Post Office Notices 1666-1899, volume 4, 1840-1849, by Michel M. Raguin, published in 1990.

Queen Victoria Wikipedia Encyclopaedia Britannica The Royal Family BBC William Wyon Wikipedia Wyon City Medal Images of the world Rowland Hill Wikipedia Encyclopedia Britannica The Postal Museum Henry Cole Wikipedia

The Maltese Cross gatehouse-folk The collectors shop black rock The Great Britain Philatelic Society David Feldman international auctions templar-cross Stamps of the World Watermarks Watermarks - a philatelic introduction (APS) Postal stationery Wikipedia Post Boxes Wikipedia The Postal Museum Norby's Personal Page "The Guinness Book of Stamps Facts and Feats" by James A. Mackay, published in 1988, ISBN: 0851123511

Edward Stanley Gibbons Wikipedia Paul Fraser Collectibles Stanley Gibbons Wikipedia Jacob Perkins Wikipedia "Perkins, Bacon & Petch" Wikipedia William Mulready Wikipedia Encyclopaedia Britannica Royal Academy of Art

Penny Black Wikipedia Warwick and Warwick Stanley Gibbons The Royal Mint Museum Postal Museum Penny Black stamp Bill Barrell The Penny Black Introduction The Plating of Penny, by Mike Batty (PDF) David Feldman Auction GREAT BRITAIN: Development and Usage of the World’s First Postage Stamps (1840-1841), by Simon Beresford-Wylie Die Geschichte der Ein-Penny-Marke von Grossbritannien von 1840 bis 1879, by Franz Zehenter (philatelic exhibit) Penny Black VR Wikipedia Smithsonian National Postal Museum

Penny Blue Wikipedia Warwick and Warwick Penny Post Penny Red Wikipedia Warwick and Warwick Penny Post The Penny Red Collector Universal Postal Union (UPU) Wikipedia official website Illustrated Envelopes "British Pictorial Envelopes of the 19th Century", by Ritchie Bodily, Chris Jarvis and Charless Hahn, published in 1984, ISBN: 0-916675-02-5 "The Postal History of the Crystal Palace 1851-1936", by Maurice H. Bristow, published in 1983

Mulready postal stationery Wikipedia The Victorian Web Stanley Gibbons: [1] [2] Corinphila Postal Museum of Smithsonian: [1] [2] "The Mulready Envelopes and Letter Sheets", by Tom Slemons, published in Gibbons Stamp Monthly in March 2012 "The Mulready Advertisements", by Malcolm G. Lowe, published by Mulready Research Foundation in 1983. Penny Pink The Development of Victorian Postal Stationery, by Colin Baker, published in British Philatelic Bulletin — Vol. 32, October 1994. Perforation (stamps separations) Wikipedia Smithsonian National Postal Museum

Specialised Literature about the Postal Reform in Great Britain, the Penny stamps, "Maltese Cross" and the Mulready postal stationery items

• "International Postal Reforms, volumes 1 and 2, Postal Reforms and the Historical Background to the Postage Stamp 1550 to 1898", by James Grimwood-Taylor RDP FRPSL, published by the Royal Philatelic Society London in 2020, ISBN: 978-1-913015-06-0 and 978-1-913015-07-7.
• "Postal Reform and the Penny Black - a new appreciation", by Douglas N Muir published by the National Postal Museum in London in 1990, ISBN: 9780951594803.
• "The British Postage Stamp of the 19^th century" by Robson Lowe, published by the National Postal Museum London in 1968.
• "The plating of the Penny Black postage stamp of Great Britain 1840", by Charles Nissen, published by Stanley Gibbons Ltd. in London in 1998. ISBN: 0-85259-459-3
• GB Specialised Volume 1 Part 1 'Queen Victoria' Stamp Catalogue (1^st Edition), published by Stanley Gibbons in 2020, ISBN: 978-1-911304-54-8.
• Commonwealth and British Empire Stamps 1840-1970 (127^th Edition 2025), published by Stanley Gibbons in 2024, ISBN: 978-1-8051792-1-4,
• MICHEL "Großbritannien-Spezial 2022/2023" published by Schwaneberger Verlag in Germering in 2022. in German. ISBN: 978-3-95402-407-0.
• Queen Victoria: A Rearrangement Into Numerical Order of The Measurements in ‘The Plating Of The Penny ’ Fifth Edition (PDF), 2022 Edited By Mike Batty, published by the Great Britain Philatelic Society in 2022.
• "Encyclopaedia of the Maltese Cross cancellations of Great Britain and Ireland", by Professor S. David Rockoff and Mike Jackson, volume 1, published by Hobbs the Printers Limited in 2006. ISBN: 0-9528274-3-3.
• "The Mulready Caricature", by Robin Cassel and Richard Hobbs, published by the Royal Philatelic Society London in two volumes in 2024 (ISBN 978-1-913015-31-2), printed by "Pardy and Son". The book includes 2,392 images of all known copies.
• "The Mulready postal stationery - its Genesis, Production and Usage", by Alan Huggins and Alan Holyoake, published by GB Philatelic Publication Ltd. in 2015. ISBN: 978-0-907630-29-6
• "The Returned Letter Offices of Great Britain to 1912 and Beyond", by J. Kenneth Snelson and Robert B. Galland, published by GB Philatelic Publication Ltd. in 2017. ISBN: 978-0-900631-91-7

For more details about the Penny stamps and the Maltese Cross please watch the following YouTube videos.


Plating the Penny stamps


Valuing the Penny stamps

For more details about Postal History please watch the following YouTube videos.

Other Topics

The Rolling Press for Pictures - uses the same principle as the press used to print the Penny stamps in 1840.	The first Christmas Card was designed by Henry Cole who helped Sir Rowland Hill to design and produce the Penny stamps.

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