Penny Blacks and Twopenny Blues: How Britain Got Stuck on Stamps

Season 16Episode 360 minNov 14, 2016
Penny Blacks and Twopenny Blues: How Britain Got Stuck on Stamps

Timeshift charts the evolution of the British postage stamp and examines how these sticky little labels became a national obsession. Like many of us, writer and presenter Andrew Martin collected stamps when he was young, and now he returns to that lost world to unpeel the history of iconic stamps like the Penny Black and the Blue Mauritius, study famous collectors like King George V and the enigmatic Count Phillip de Ferrary, and to meet present-day philatelists at a stamp club.

Penny Blacks and Twopenny Blues: How Britain Got Stuck on Stamps has aired on Nov 14, 2016 at 9:00 PM
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