May 1, 1840: The Penny Black, the world’s firstpostage stampsold for one penny, is released in Britain, featuring a profile portrait of Queen Victoria. More than 70 million letters are sent within the next year, a number that tripled in two years. It’s soon copied in other countries...
You have the Young Head of Queen Victoria on the obverse and a seated figure of Britannia holding a trident on the reverse. The design was deeply engraved and the thick copper planchet made the coins strike even better £22.95 Victoria Copper Halfpenny Very Good Today we call small coins...
Penny Black On 1st May 1840, The Penny Black, the first adhesive postage stamp, was released in Britain. It was designed by William Mulready and shows Queen Victoria in profile. Source: primaryfacts.com, image: wikimedia.org 22. The Stately Auction In 2008, a pair of Queen Victoria’s ...
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The Penny Farthing The first vehicle to be referred to as a bicycle, the enormous-wheeled penny-farthing is an iconic item of Victoriana. Although an instantly recognisable product of the times, the penny-farthing was a relatively short-lived innovation, its popularity rising and falling within ...
1840 Victoria marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. 1840 The Penny Post is introduced. First postage stamp is the Penny Black. 1840 First colonist settlement in New Zealand 1841 Sir Robert Peel becomes Prime Minister 1842 End of First Opium War. Britain gains Hong Kong 1843 Launch of SS...
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the pair often spent time at Craigowan Lodge on the royal estate in Scotland, Balmoral, where they imagined a more normal life with the queen doing the washing up and the prince holding barbecues. As biographer Penny Junor said, "They like being in a smaller cozier house ... they dream...
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like those of department stores as well as cheap books, theatres, and shops began to spring up: some proved, like the Great Exhibition of 1851, proved to be an excellent political and propaganda opportunity, museums proved a chance to enlighten and educate the masses, whilst penny dreadfuls ...