Orchids
16-Mar-1993
This set of stamps has been issued on the occasion of the fourteenth World Orchid Conference which is being held in Glasgow from 28 April to 2 May 1993. For many, this will be a...
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Art in the 20th Century
11-May-1993
First stamp. FAMILY GROUP, 1947. Bronze, height 40 cm (© Henry Moore Foundation, Much Hadham). Second stamp. KEW GARDENS (detail), 1936. Lithograph after...
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Roman Britain
15-Jun-1993
The Roman conquest of Britain was initiated by the emperor Claudius 1,950 years ago in AD 43. It took many decades, but eventually the northern frontier of the new province settled...
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Inland Waterways
20-Jul-1993
In the great 'Canal Mania' of the late eighteenth century, the year 1793 was one of the busiest. Hundreds of miles of inland waterways were either in use, under construction, being...
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Autumn
14-Sep-1993
A cluster of families blackberrying, a pair of squirrels gathering acorns, a party of mistle thrushes swooping down on rowan berries, these are the 'fruits' of autumn. The early days of a...
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Sherlock Holmes
12-Oct-1993
When the writer Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) decided in 1893 to kill off his best-loved character, the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, he caused a storm of public protest...
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Christmas 1993: A Christmas Carol
9-Nov-1993
Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol 150 years ago. Its publication marked a period of great change in the way Christmas was celebrated, and many of our festive customs...
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The Age of Steam
18-Jan-1994
When our railways were being constructed in the nineteenth century, a period of frantic financial and promotional activity known later as the 'Railway Mania' took place. In the...
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