Text on the reverse side: À l’époque de la marine à voile, les chats gardaient les réserves et remontaient le moral. Un anniversaire, comme un voy...

Text on the reverse side: Opened in 1989, the museum celebrates the life, work and enduring legacy of the founder of modern nursing. Through perso...

Text on the reverse side: Champagne became tied to Christmas festivities in the 19th century, when French winemakers promoted it as the drink for ...

Text on the reverse side: Florence Nightingale kept over 60 cats throughout her life, including a Persian cat named Mr Bismarck. Cats appear indep...

Text on the reverse side: The beckoning cat, or maneki-neko, became one of Japan’s most recognisable lucky symbols during the Edo period. Though n...

Text on the reverse side: As the world’s first adhesive postage stamp used within a national system, the Penny Black modelled postal modernity. Mo...

Text on the reverse side: A contemporary postal adaptation of a Japanese woodblock print dating 1814. The Japanese word for frog is “kaeru”, which...

Text on the reverse side: A contemporary Florence Nightingale adaptation of a Japanese woodblock print from 1814. The Japanese word for frog is “k...

Text on the reverse side: The central childlike figure represents Puck, the mischievous fairy from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Richard Dadd later b...

Text on the reverse side: This illustration from The Book of the Cat reflects the soothing nature of cats, which can sleep for up to twenty hours ...