af Vagn Juhl-Larsen | jul 12, 2023 | Stamp of the day
British Bechuanaland was a short-lived Crown colony of the United Kingdom that existed in southern Africa from its formation in 1885 until its annexation to the neighbouring Cape Colony in 1895. British Bechuanaland had an area of 51,424 square miles (133,190 km2) and...
af Vagn Juhl-Larsen | jul 11, 2023 | Stamp of the day
Basutoland was a British Crown colony that existed from 1884 to 1966 in present-day Lesotho. Stamps from Cape of Good Hope were used in Basutoland from 1876 until 1910. From 1910 until 1933 stamps from South Africa were used. The first stamps of Basutoland were...
af Vagn Juhl-Larsen | jul 3, 2023 | Stamp of the day
Barbados was first occupied by the British in 1627 and remained a British colony until internal autonomy was granted in 1961. The Island gained full independence in 1966, and maintains ties to the Britain monarch represented in Barbados by the Governor General. It is...
af Vagn Juhl-Larsen | jul 2, 2023 | Stamp of the day
The Bahamas became a British crown colony in 1718, when the British clamped down on piracy. After the American Revolutionary War, the Crown resettled thousands of American Loyalists to the Bahamas; they took enslaved people with them and established plantations on...
af Vagn Juhl-Larsen | jul 2, 2023 | Stamp of the day
The first recorded European contact was in 1616, when Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog landed on the west coast. Although many expeditions visited the coast during the next 200 years, there was no lasting attempt at establishment of a permanent settlement until December...
