Verenigd Koninkrijk 1820/1946 – Groot Brits posthistorisch familiearchief 1820-1946 – Wilson & Lang – luchtpost, censuur, FDC,

Large old British postal history and family correspondence album, covering roughly the period from the early 19th century to 1946–1947. This is a substantial archival group containing early folded letters, covers, postcards, postal stationery, airmail, censor mail, official and service mail, first day covers, slogan and machine cancellations, cut-out franking impressions, and other postal-history elements preserved together in one old album.The collection combines family and social history with the wider postal history of Britain and the British Empire. Clear correspondence nuclei can be seen around the Wilson family (Chislehurst / Bickley, Kent) and the Lang family (Bath, Somerset), together with a broader circle of related correspondents, schools, homes and religious institutions. Repeated addresses include Golf View, Chislehurst; Alverstone, Park Farm Road, Bickley; 1 Oxford Row, Bath; and 17 Belmont / Lansdown Road, Bath.The archive also contains an earlier associated 19th-century layer, including folded manuscript letters, among them a letter to Lady Bath and other early Bath-related papers. The main body of the material belongs to the interwar and wartime period and includes a wide range of private, social, official, commercial and overseas correspondence.The geographical range is broad. In addition to Great Britain, the photographs showed material connected with the following... lees verder bij Catawiki