Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Sir Rowland Hill
Standard Name: Hill, Sir Rowland
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1835-1840: Rowland Hill proposed and campaigned for...
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1835-1840
Rowland Hill
proposed and campaigned for the use of postage stamps.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
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1856: Under the direction of Sir Rowland Hill,...
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1856
Under the direction of Sir Rowland Hill
, London was divided into twelve postal districts, named after the points of the compass (SW, W, NW, etc.) with two central districts: WC and EC.
