In a monarchy dating back to at least the 10th century with King Athelstan, Elizabeth's reign was the longest. In 2015, she broke a record once thought unassailable, surpassing the 63-year rule of her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria. While Victoria retreated from her regal duties af...
The connection between Queen and postage stamps has been well documented. Royal Mail previously depicted Mercury on a 1999 stamp as part of the agency's Millennium series. Additionally, Mercury was a stamp collector during his childhood. The announcement of the new stamps comes a few days after ...
The connection between Queen and postage stamps has been well documented. Royal Mail previously depicted Mercury on a 1999 stamp as part of the agency's Millennium series. Additionally, Mercury was a stamp collector during his childhood. The announcement of the new stamps comes a few days after ...
{0002-6980}, journal = {Ambix: the journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry}, language = {English}, pages = {11--18}, title = {The Introduction of Aniline Dyes to Paper Printing and Queen Victoria{textquoteright}s Postage Stamps}, volume = {44}, year = {...
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You need to get your head examined: the unchanging portrait of Queen Victoria on nineteenth-Century British Postage Stamps. IN: LERA, Thomas (ed.). The Winton M. Blount Postal History Symposia: selected papers, 2010-2011. Washington [DC]: Smithsonian Institute Scholarly Press, 2012. p. 19-...
postage stampsMauveine, a chemical icon, is no longer commercially available. If nowadays one wanted to have a sample of the original Perkin, or Caro, mauveine, and see its colour, where would one find it? The answer is on UK Victorian 6d postage stamps from 18671880. This was found from...