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The FPHS is please to announce that Graham Mark, FRPSL has been awarded the Harry Cope Memorial Award for Literature for 2001 for his publication:
British Censorship of Civil Mails during World War I, 1914-1919
He has traced the development of the organisation and operation of the Censorship, including detailed records of the extension of censorship to mails to or from, or in transit to or from, affected countries. Each country is dealt with individually showing dates of commencement and cessation of British censorship of mails, reference to the country's own censorship arrangements, where applicable dates of suspension and restoration of postal services and other information, including reasons for imposition of specific censorship. Labels (note the use of the term, rather than the incorrect "tape" as used in other publications), enclosure slips, handstamps (censorship and explanatory), seals (for use on wax) and registration etiquettes are also covered in detail, all being illustrated wherever possible. Throughout the book there are illustrations of relevant covers, there are also photographs of some of the buildings used by the Censorship. Although military and naval censorship are outside the scope of the book there are some references. A few of the many specific subjects dealt with: Express (2/6d fee) mail for speedy passage through the censorship system This is an extremely invaluable reference work - informative and fully llustrated. It is well researched in available archives and covers a complex subject in a logical sequence that makes the book easy to follow, understand and use for reference.
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Published by the Stuart Rossiter Trust Fund it has over 250 pages of text and illustrations. Graham Mark has made an intensive study of the British Postal Censorship which, in 1914, started in a small and confused way in spite of a decade of consideration of the subject.