Boy Messengers

This is a resource pack of archive material relating to Post Office Boy Messengers. Boy Messengers were employed by the Post Office in the later Victorian period, primarily to deliver telegrams. Like the Messages Through Time learning pack, this pack offers documentary evidence from The Royal Mail Archive, the "raw material of history". Unlike Messages Through Time, this resource pack does not contain any activities, just reproductions of original material from The Royal Mail Archive.

The material in this learning pack can be used to support teaching for History at Key Stage 2, looking at Victorian Childhood.

Boy Messengers is only available as a download and not in hard copy.

Downloads

Boy Messengers - Pack (PDF, 4MB)

Victorian Childhood presentation (MS PowerPoint, 577 KB)