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The General Post Office (GPO) [1] was the state postal system and telecommunications carrier of the United Kingdom until 1969. [2] Established in England in the 17th century, the GPO was a state monopoly covering the dispatch of items from a specific sender to a specific receiver (which was to be of great importance when new forms of communication were invented); it was overseen by a ...
The Second Naval Lord was the second most senior Naval Lord on the Board of Admiralty and as Chief of Naval Personnel was responsible for handling all personnel matters for the Royal Navy. In 1917 the title was changed to the Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel by an order in council dated 23 October. [2]
Britain at Bay (aka Britain on Guard in other countries) is a 1940 British propaganda film directed by Harry Watt and produced by the General Post Office GPO Film Unit of the British Ministry of Information and distributed by the National Film Board of Canada. [1] The film was written and narrated by noted author and political commentator J. B ...
Knight/Lady Companion of the Order of the Garter KG/LG; Knight/Lady of the Order of the Thistle KT/LT; Knight of the Order of St Patrick [note 1] KP; Knight/Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath GCB
In 1895, GPO North was opened immediately to the north of GPO West (and connected to it across Angel Street by a second-floor footbridge), as the GPO continued to expand. [34] Known as Post Office Headquarters (PHQ), it was designed by Henry Tanner to house the Postmaster General and the GPO's administrative departments (the Secretary's Office ...
Level 1 includes all of the above categories, while Level 5 includes only Policy and Coordination. [1] In 1976, JPL first published Van Buren and Buehler's work as The Levels of Edit. [1] JPL published a second edition in 1980, which was distributed to the public by the United States Government Printing Office (GPO).
Squadron 992 is a 23-minute 1940 British propaganda film produced by the General Post Office GPO Film Unit of the British Ministry of Information and re-distributed by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) as part of their wartime Canada Carries On series. [1]
For copyeditors, the 2nd edition of the Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications, published in 2006, states that users should "delete any extra word spacing before or after punctuation marks" and that "The conventions are: One space follows a sentence-ending punctuation mark."