Boy Messengers (History - Victorian)

This is a very simple resource pack of archive material relating to Post Office Boy Messengers. Boy Messengers were employed by the Post Office in the later Victorian period, primarily to deliver telegrams. The material in this pack can be used to support teaching for History at Key Stage 2, looking at Victorian Childhood.

Like the Messages Through Time pack, this pack offers documentary evidence from The Royal Mail Archive... the 'raw material of history'. Unlike Messages Through Time, this resource pack does not contain any activities, just reproductions of original material from The Royal Mail Archive.

Download the complete Boy Messengers pack (Note that this is a very large file):

Boy Messengers (complete pack) (PDF, 4MB)

You can also download a PowerPoint presentation with selected images from the pack (Note that this is a very large file):

Boy Messengers PowerPoint (.ppt file, 9MB)

Download in sections

You can also download the pack in separate parts by type of document, which may be easier on a slower computer:

• Section 1 - Photographs, 1890s-1900s
  
  
• Section 2 - Documents, 1870-1900
  
  
• Section 3 - Exam paper, 1914
  
  
• Section 4 - Newspaper transcript, 1895

This pack was created to support the work of our 2005 Young Cultural Creators project with St Albans School.

If you want more Victorian resources for Key Stage 2, take a look at our Penny Black resources.