{"id":46,"date":"2016-01-19T22:04:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T03:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2026-03-25T10:51:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:51:23","slug":"communication","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/exhibit\/communication\/","title":{"rendered":"communication"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #191966;\"><em><strong>\u2026 postage stamps, mailboxes, and [&#8230;] the idea that all people in all places are connected by the mail can be traced back to the first years of Victoria\u2019s reign. <\/strong><\/em><br>\n\u2014 Kate Thomas, Postal Pleasures : Sex, Scandal, and Victorian Letters, 2012. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Postal system reforms in Victorian England created unprecedented opportunities for communication. This revolution networked people across social classes and geographic distances and inspired global developments in mail services. From formal letter-writing to the vernacular postcard, correspondence flourished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/communication-1\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx001_1md_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"communication-1\" class=\"wp-image-29\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/communication-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx002_1md_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"communication-2\" class=\"wp-image-68\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/communication-3\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx005_1md_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"communication-3\" class=\"wp-image-54\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/communication-4\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/WonderlandCase3007_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"communication-4\" class=\"wp-image-54\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/communication-5\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx048_10md_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"communication-5\" class=\"wp-image-54\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 postage stamps, mailboxes, and [&#8230;] the idea that all people in all places are connected by the mail can be traced back to the first years of Victoria\u2019s reign. \u2014 Kate Thomas, Postal Pleasures : Sex, Scandal, and Victorian Letters, 2012. Postal system reforms in Victorian England created unprecedented opportunities for communication. This revolution <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/exhibit\/communication\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  communication<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-46","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1175,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions\/1175"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}