Making a stamp on history
9th March 1995, Page 23
9th March 1995
Page 23
Page 23, 9th March 1995
— Making a stamp on history
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Philately, British People, United Kingdom, Clement Attlee, National Coal Board, Postage Stamp, Politics
:oyal Mail Stamps has i issued a series of stamp books covers to commemorate 20th century prime ministers, those celebrated folk heroes. I detect a note of irony in the choice of Clement Attlee as number four in the series, set against a backdrop of the newly privatised National Coal Board. He
was responsible for the most thoroughgoing nationalisation programme this country has seen. The Post Office, one of the last remaining industries in public hands, recently narrowly escaped privatisation. Could the stamp cover be a coded message to the privateers to back Off?