Power & Philately

Myth-Making With Miniature Works of Art

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Part of the fragile framework holding together a country's mythos, postage stamps have long served as a form of propaganda. This series, triumphantly titled Power & Philately: Myth-Making With Miniature Works of Art, appears about once a week with a new story. Each edition explores some facet of stamps or postal history as propaganda with commentary and interviews featuring relevant figures from around the world.

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Introducing stamps as propaganda

'A postage stamp is one of the best advertising mediums the country can have,' said Australian Postmaster General Charles Frazer in 1913, following a years-long debate about the nation's first issue.

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