England's Mail : Two Millennia of Letter Writing.: Two Millennia of Letter Writing. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: Beale, P. O (Philip O.)
• Contents: Cover; Title; About the Cover; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Primary Sources and Dates; 1 From the Romans to the Norman Conquest; 2 The Royal Mail in the Middle Ages; 3 Medieval Highways and Travellers; 4 The Medieval and Tudor Church: Early Letters in English; 5 Medieval Towns, Correspondence and Messengers; 6 Fifteenth-century Letters; 7 The Carriers from the Conquest to the Stuarts; 8 The Organisation of the Tudor Post at Home and Abroad; 9 Carrying the Tudor Royal and Merchant Mail; 10 Tudor Roads and Postal Routes; 11 Sixteenth-century letters. 12 The Organisation of a National Postal ServiceBooks and Articles on the English Post Before 1635; Sir Brian Tuke's letter to Thomas Cromwell 1533; Viscount Montague's secretariat, 1595; Examples of costs of Tudor and Stuart postal routes; Summary of postal accounts from June 1621 to May 1632; Bibliography; The Rossiter Trust; Copyright.
• Publisher Details: Stroud : The History Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (458 pages)
• Subjects: 383.494 383.4942; Postal service -- Great Britain -- History; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Communication Studies; Postal service; Social conditions; Great Britain -- Social conditions; Great Britain; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780752472560; 0752472569
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.