‘A Powerful Engine of Civilisation’: The Post Office Before 1920
Abstract
When it is considered how much the religious, moral and intellectual progress of the people would be accelerated by the unobstructed circulation of letters and of the many cheap and excellent publications of the present day, the Post Office assumes a new and important character of a powerful engine of civilisation; capable of performing a distinguished part in the great work of National education. (Rowland Hill, Post Office Reform: Its Importance and Practicability, 1837, p. 8)
Fields of Study & Subjects
Libraries
Manuscripts
and Books
Historical and Political Studies
Historical Architecture and Urbanism
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Routledge eBooks
- Pages
- 18–43
- Publication date
- 6 March 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter