The British Empire - Was It Different?


Freetown Post Office


This 1890 photograph was taken in 1890 and shows the Post Office and staff in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Communications systems like this helped link the disparate empire into an integrated whole.


The British Empire - Was It Different? Article


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