The iconic GPO Film Unit’s Night Mail (1936) is credited to two directors and producers, Harry Watt and Basil Wright (the latter was responsible for the script). Wright’s most celebrated film as director is another GPO Film Unit production 1934’s Song of Ceylon. Watt’s later Target for Tonight won an honorary Academy Award in 1942.
1600s Launch of Royal Mail’s Investigation Department
1600s The origins of the postmark
1900s Edmund Dulac (1882-1953)
1900s Shakespeare Globe Theatre (1995)
1800s The changing face of Christmas cards
1700s John Pratt writes to John Palmer to inform him that he hasn’t been appointed to Government (August 1782), (from the private papers of John Palmer)