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  • 500 years of history

    2016 commemorates 500 years since

    Henry VIII knighted Brian Tuke,

    the first Master of the Posts,

    in 1516

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  • By land, sea and air

    500 years of delivering

    the mail

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  • Letters of our lives:

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    Explore more than 1,600

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    that reveal our social

    and political history

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  • 1500s Sir Brian Tuke

  • 1600s Launch of Royal Mail’s Investigation Department

  • 1800s The first postage stamp; Queen Victoria 1d black – the Penny Black (1840)

  • 1800s The UK’s oldest working post boxes

  • 1800s Postboxes: the start of the legend

  • 1900s Intelligent letter sorting machines (ILSMs)

  • 1800s Use of the Royal cypher on post boxes

  • 1800s Badge of Office

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  • A tribute to Royal Mail’s design heritage

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  • Two of the UK's oldest organisations welcome new master

500 years of postal history in 500 items

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The origins of
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