A selection of resources which were useful in the making of The People's Post.

Posting It: The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing
by Catherine J Golden
(University Press of Florida)

The Pen and the People: English letter writers 1660-1800
by Susan E Whyman
(OUP Oxford)

A history of the post in England from the Romans to the Stuarts
by Philip Beale
(Scolar Pr)

Masters of the Post: the Authorized History of The Royal Mail
by Duncan Campbell-Smith
(Allen Lane)

John Palmer (of Bath): Mail Coach Pioneer
by Charles R. Clear
(1955)

The Post Office Workforce: A Trade Union and Social History
by Alan Clinton
(Allen & Unwin, 1984)

Royal Mail: The Post Office since 1840
by M J Daunton
(Continuum International Publishing Group – Athlone)

The Post Office in the Eighteenth Century
by Kenneth Ellis
(1958)

The Reform of the Post Office in the Victorian Era and its Impact on Economic and Social Activity: Documentary History 1837 to 1864 based on Sir Rowland Hill's Journal and Ancillary Papers
Gavin Fryer and Clive Akerman (Eds.)
(2000)

Rowland Hill: Victorian Genius and Benefactor
by Colin G. Hey
(1989)

The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the History of Penny Postage
by Sir Rowland Hill
(1880)

The Inter-Departmental Committee on Post Office Establishments: a verbatim report of the evidence given before Lord Tweedmouth and Committee by the representatives of the Postmen's Federation
(1896)

The British State Telegraphs
by HR Meyer
(1907)

The Coaching Age
by David Mountfield
(1976)

Postal Reform & the Penny Black
by Douglas Muir
(1990)

The Post Office: A Review of the Activities of the Post Office
(1934)

The British Post Office: A History
by Howard Robinson
(Greenwood Press 1948)

Short History of the Telegraph
by HG Sellars
(1934)

The Victorian Internet
by Tom Standage
(1998)

Post Offices
by Julian Stray
(2010)

A History of Postal Agitation: From Fifty Years ago to the Present Day
by H.G. Swift
(1900)

William Dockwra and the rest of the Undertakers: the story of the London Penny Post, 1680-82
by T. Todd
(1952)

The Mail Coach Men of the late Eighteenth Century
by Edmund Vale
(1960)

Royal Mail Coaches: An Illustrated History
by Frederick Wilkinson
(2007)