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Mike Scott ARCHER, Postman's Roots (2000 Years of Letter Carrying in Breconshire). Welsh Philatelic Society, 2003. 30pp.

Russell ASH, Dear Cats. The Post Office Letters. London: Pavilion Books Ltd, 1986. 128pp.

Brian AUSTEN, English Provincial Posts 1633‑1840: A study based on Kent examples. London: Phillimore & Co., 1978. 192pp.

P. G. AWCOCK, Automatic Letter Sorting in the United Kingdom.

Archibald Granger BOWIE, The Romance of the British Post Office. Its Inception and Wonderous Development. London: S. W. Partridge & Co, 1897. 160pp.

George BRUMMELL, Post Office Numbers 1844‑1906, reprint. Cheltenham: R. C. Alcock Ltd, 1979. 138pp.

C. R. CLEAR, The Birth of the Postal Service. London: HMSO, 1935. 16pp. (Post Office Green Paper 15A)

McAdam and the Post Office. 5pp. (Typescript)

Harry DAGNALL, The Mechanised Sorting of Mail. Leicester: H. Dagnall, 1976. 52pp.

Peter DAVIES and Ben MAILE, First Post. From Penny Black to the Present Day. London: Quiller Press Ltd, 1990. 127pp.

Jean FARRUGIA, The Letter Box. A History of Post Office Pillar and Wall Boxes. Fontwell: Centuar Press Ltd, 1969. 282pp.

Stephen FERGUSON, The Post Office in Ireland – an Illustrated History. Irish Academic Press, 2016. 448pp.

John Spencer GILKS, From Pillar to Post, A pictorial celebration of POST OFFICES. Silver Link Publishing Ltd, 2010. 128pp.

James GRIMWOOD‑TAYLOR, The Post in Scotland. Stamp Publicity Board, 1990. 96pp.

A. R. B. HALDANE, Three Centuries of Scottish Posts: An Historical Survey to 1836. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1971.

Roger JOHNSON and Frank WALTON, Edwin Hill's Diary 1840. Royal Philatelic Society, 2016. 129pp.

Robson LOWE, The Romance of the Empire Posts. 9pp.

C. F. Dendy MARSHALL, The British Post Office from its beginnings to the end of 1925. Oxford University Press, 1926. 354pp.

Glenn H. MORGAN, Royal Household Mail, official reprint. London: The British Philatelic Trust, 1993. 214pp.

John A. E. MOY, The Use of the 1894 Code Time System in Ireland.

Douglas N. MUIR, British Postal Mechanisation. A Handbook (Section 1 parts 1,2 & 3). Henley‑on‑Thames: Postal Mechanisation Study Circle, 1993.

Tony OLIVER and Allan OLIVER, The History of Post Office Training. Post Office Training Schools. A Handbook and Reference Listing. Sarum Publications, 1996. 82pp.

Edwin WELLS, Postal Reform. London: The C. W. Daniel Company, 1930. 61pp.

Post Offices in the United Kingdom and Eire July 1941. HMSO, 1941. (Photocopies of selected pages, please ask)

London Post Offices and Streets November 1946. HMSO, 1946. 248pp.

London Post Offices and Streets December 1968. HMSO, 1968. 258pp.

Post Offices in the United Kingdom April 1968. HMSO, 1968. 515pp.

Postal leaflets and information pamphlets issued during the 1970s. London: HMSO, 1970‑79. (Approx 200 leaflets)

Post Office Gazette, No. 32. Britain's First Decimal Stamps. HMSO, 1970. 16pp.

Acts of Parliament relating to the Post Office 1838‑1844, reprint. Tiverton: Britannia Stamp Bureau, 1976. 94pp.

Acts of Parliament relating to the Post Office 1710‑1837, reprint. Tiverton: Britannia Stamp Bureau, 1977. 312pp. (First published 1838)

Post Office Guide, October 1977 incl. Supplements 1 & 2. HMSO, 1977. 688pp.

Post Offices in the United Kingdom November 1977. HMSO, 1977. 533pp.

Government White Paper on the Post Office (Cmnd 7292) July 1978. HMSO, 1978. 35pp.

Monopolies and Mergers Commission Report: The Inner London Letter Post 31st March 1980. HMSO, 1980. 129pp.

Post Office Guide, 1980. HMSO, 1980. 481pp.

Monopolies and Mergers Commission Report: The Post Office Letter Post Service (Cmnd 9332) September 1984. HMSO, 1984. 229pp.

British Postal Guide; containing The Chief Public Regulation of the Post Office, with other information 1857, reprint. Oxted, Surrey, 1994. 173pp.

Post Office Philatelic Bulletins, Volumes 1 and 2, reprint.

Association of Friends of the National Postal Museum, Cross Post. London: NPM (Vol 1 No 1 to Vol 9 No 4 (missing Vol. 9 Nos 2 & 4))

National Postal Museum, The Philatelic Year. London: NPM, 1988‑97. (10 reports)