From the world’s 1st adhesive postage stamp, the Penny Black, issued in the UK on May 1, 1840 to colonial India’s 1st ...

With the ascension of King Charles III to the British throne in 2023, some commentators have made much of the fact that the stamp bearing his image features the king without a crown. This is a major ...

May Day was celebrated for the first time as a labour holiday. Since then, Labour Day has grown into a global event, with ...

The Penny Black It is the first stamp emitted in the world. Conceived in England by Rowland Hillthe Penny Black ...

When the United States Post Office issued the first federal ... of its first national postage stamps, the Penny Black and the Two Pence Blue, in 1840. Brazil followed in 1843.

He was born in 1840 in the London district of Chelsea ... in fact I think they will not give a penny until something is discovered." It was then that Smith began systematically surveying the ...

Cartoonist Harry Bliss explores the life and death of his dog Penny, a star of his comic strip “Bliss.” The following is ...