The Penny Black Changed the World (History - Victorian)
In June 2005 the BPMA received a £47,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for The Penny Black Changed the World digitisation and outreach project.
You can find out more about the project, including the digitisation of the Phillips Collection of Victorian philately, in our Projects section.
Free resources
- KS2 Education pack, including:
- Teachers notes and information sheets
- Activity sheets for pupils (easily photocopied and also available as a PDF to download in Welsh)
- Timeline poster
- Colour facsimile archive documents to support activities
A hard copy printed pack is FREE to teachers: email your name and school address to info@postalheritage.org.uk or call 020 7239 2570.
The pack is also available to download as a PDF.
Please let us know what you think of the pack using our evaluation form (Word file, 200KB).
- Penny Black Gallery
- Colour images to support teaching with the black and white pack (Perfect for copy-and-paste ICT activities).
- Penny Black History
- Online version of the information sheets from the pack. There are no links to other websites from this section, so pupils can do their own research.
- Activity 4.5 Excel chart instructions
- Step-by-step guidelines (with screenshots) on how to create a simple chart in Excel. This supports Activity 4.5 in Theme 4 - Communication & Transportation.
