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    London’s first international

    Feb 11, 2022 4 minutes

    The first thing to note about the first international is that it commemorated the anniversary of the Penny Post. Fifty years later, they would be celebrating the anniversary of the Penny Black. An affordable, efficient postal service had become so much a part of life that it was no longer remarkable.

    The Penny Post had been an immediate success. In 1839, only around 76 million chargeable letters had passed through the system. By 1841, that number had increased to over 168 million. Couple this with the development of the railway network, the expansion in business and trade, the growth of literacy in general and newspaper readership in particular – and

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