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Masters of the Post
Author | : Duncan Campbell-Smith |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 840 |
Release | : 2011-11-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780141973227 |
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The origins of the Post Office go back to the early years of the Tudor monarchy: Brian Tuke, a former King's Bailiff in Sandwich, was acknowledged as the first 'Master of the Posts' by Cardinal Wolsey in 1512, and went on to build up a network of 'postmasters' across England for Henry VIII. Over the following five hundred years the Royal Mail expanded to an unimaginable degree to become the largest employer in the country, and the face of the British state for most people in their everyday lives. But it also faced the demands of an increasingly commercial marketplace. With the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979, the possibility of privatising the Royal Mail has prompted passionate arguments - and has added immeasurably to the difficulties of running it. In charting the whole of this extraordinary story, Duncan Campbell-Smith recounts a series of remarkable tales, including how postal engineers built the first programmable computer for the wartime code-breakers of Bletchley Park and how the Royal Mail managed to successfully continue delivering post to the front lines during two world wars, but also how they failed to avert the Great Train Robbery of 1963. He brings to life many of the dominant personalities in the Royal Mail's history - from Rowland Hill, who imposed a uniform penny post and set the great Victorian expansion on its way, to Tony Benn who championed the modernisation of the service in the 1960s and Tom Jackson who led the postal workers' biggest union through fifteen frequently stormy years up to 1982. This is the first complete history of the Royal Mail up to the present day, based on its comprehensive archives, and including the first detailed account of the past half-century of Britain's postal history, made possible by privileged access to confidential records. Today's debate over the future of the Royal Mail is shown to be just the ;atest chapter in a centuries-old conflict between its roles raising revenue and serving the public. Will its employees remain, like Brian Tuke's postmasters, servants of the Crown? This book could hardly appear at a more timely moment.
Steel s Shipmaster s Assistant for the Use of Merchants Owners and Masters of Vessels Officers of Customs Measures and Exchanges and Naval Book keeping
Author | : Graham Willmore |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1068 |
Release | : 1846 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : EHC:148100004223P |
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A Treatise on the Law of Master and Servant Including Therein Masters and Workmen
Author | : Charles Manley SMITH |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 1860 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0026582204 |
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The Postal Laws and Regulations of the United States of America
Author | : United States |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 1879 |
Genre | : Postal service |
ISBN | : HARVARD:HWABAD |
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Educational Times
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : CORNELL:31924071543254 |
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The Public General Statutes Affecting Scotland from the Beginning of the First Parliament of Great Britain 6 Anne A D 1707 to the End of the Fourteenth Parliament of the United Kingdom 10 11 Victoria A D 1847 Etc
Author | : Great Britain. - Laws & Statutes. - III. 1707-1847 |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 922 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : NLS:V001487649 |
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Digital Art Masters
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780240520858 |
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50+ artists and 900 stunning color images show the best in today's digital art
Assessment of Simulator based Training for the Enhancement of Cadet Watch Officer Performance
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : UOM:39015091135007 |
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