Nineteenth-Century Communications: A Documentary History, 1780-1918: Volume I: Reforming the Mails

This volume focuses on the development of mail services between ca. 1780 and 1860. It takes as its starting point John Palmer’s proposal to reform the mail coach system in the 1780s up until the development of mail infrastructure from 1840 onward, including the development of rural post routes and the use of the railways.

Dr Karin Koehler, Lecturer in 19th-Century British Literature, Bangor University

Dr Nicola Kirkby, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Royal Holloway University London

Dr Kathleen McIlvenna, Lecturer in History, University of Derby

Ms Eleanor Shipton, South West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership Candidate, University of Exeter and University of Southampton