The Victorian Post Office: The Growth of a Bureaucracy.

Abstract

Part 1 Administrative contexts: the world of St Martin's le Grand the role of treasury. Part 2 New responsibilities: the encouragement of thrift the nationalization of the telegraphs the trials of the Post Office telegraphs, 1870-1914 the coming of the telephone, 1876-92 the acquisition of the telephone, 1892-1920. Part 3 Complications of growth: railway contracts shipping contracts. Part 4 Epilogue: a pattern of government growth?