Timeshift: Penny Blacks & Twopenny Blues: How Britain Got Stuck on Stamps

60mAired 2016-11-14

A look at how the introduction of the penny post changed Britain, and how enthusiasm for the first stamps led to the emergence of stamp-collecting as a popular hobby.

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