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Bernard, Captain (c.1908) The Postcard Code: a novel and private method of communicating by postcard. (British Library: 012331.de2301233).

Brooks, A., Fletcher, F.  &  Lund, B.  (1982) What the Postman Saw. Reflections of a Bygone Age.

Carline, R. (1971) Pictures in the Post: the story of the picture postcard. London: Gordon Fraser.

Daunton, M.J. (1985) Royal Mail: the Post office since 1840. London: Athlone Press.

How, James (2003) Epistolary Spaces: English Letter Writing from the Foundation of the Post Office to Richardson's Clarissa. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing.

Milne, E. (2010) Letters, Postcards, Email: technologies of presence.  New York: Routledge.

Mitch, D. (1992) The Rise of Popular Literacy in Victorian England: the Influence of Private Choice and Public Policy. Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press.

Monahan, V. (1980) Collecting Postcards in Colour 1914-1930. Poole: Blandford Press.

Östman, Jan-Ola (2004) The postcard as media. TEXT. 24 (3).

Phillips, T. (2000) The Postcard Century. London: Thames and Hudson.

Robinson, H. (1948) The British Post Office: A History. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Siegert, B. (1999[1993]) The Postcard.  Chapter 16 in Relays: literature as an epoch of the postal system. (146-164). trans. K. Repp. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Snow, R. (2010) Correspondence Here: real photo postcards and the snapshot aesthetic. In D. Prochaska & J. Mendelson (eds) Postcards: Ephemeral histories of modernity. Philadelphia, PA: The Pennsylvania State University.

Staff, F. (1979) The Picture Postcard and its Origins 2nd edn. Lutterworth Press.

Thurlow, C., Jaworski, A. & Ylänne, V. (2010) 'New' mobilities, transient identities: holiday postcards. In C. Thurlow and A. Jaworski (eds) Tourism Discourse. Palgrave Macmillan.

Wollaeger, Mark (2001) Woolf, Postcards, and the Elision of Race: Colonizing Women in The Voyage Out. Modernism/modernity - Volume 8, Number 1, January 2001, pp. 43-75

Vincent, D. (1989) Literacy and Popular Culture: England 1750-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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