Royal Mail has launched a very special online gallery that showcases the amazing letters and images it received as part… Read more Letters of Our Lives gallery (via 500years.royalmailgroup.com)

We all love to receive thoughtful, handwritten letters in the post, but many of us have lost the knack and… Read more Sue Perkins: The lost art of letter writing (via the Guardian)

Jude Law, Stephen Fry and Sandi Toksvig headed a stellar cast as intimate letters were read out to a crowd… Read more Letters Live at the Hay Festival: ‘Letter-writing is not, after all, a dying art’ (via Telegraph.co.uk)

He was Britain’s greatest naval hero, famed for his victories against the French during the Napoleonic Wars – most famously… Read more The letters that reveal Horatio Nelson’s secrets (via History Extra)

Letter from Honley grocer A W Wimpenny which he wrote on March 23, 1941, to the parents of Joan Walsh,… Read more Memories of the blitz revealed in letter from Honley (via huddersfieldexaminer)

A 102-year-old letter from the chief engineer of Titanic to his son has revealed that the doomed ship almost crashed… Read more 102-year-old letter shows Titanic was almost saved by crash into ship (via Mail Online)

As JK Rowling gets planning permission to construct a summer house inspired by Hagrid’€™s hut, we round up five of… Read more Best writers’ sheds – in pictures (via the Guardian)

Beatrix Potter fans are celebrating the 150th anniversary of her birth today, with Royal Mail releasing commemorative stamps and a… Read more The adorable letter Beatrix Potter wrote to a young Peter Rabbit fan (via The Independent)

Letter of longing from Prince Albert to his bride-to-be to go on display for the first time. From: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/10524906/Dearest-deeply-loved-Victoria-…-your-image-fills-my-whole-soul.html

Mary Anning is a famous dinosaur discoverer who ‘sold sea shells by the sea shore’. She wrote this letter describing her… Read more Letter from Mary Anning (via www.show.me.uk)