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The first stamps, a set of four, came out in 1968. Another set appeared later that year, commemorating the country’s first year of independence. One, the 1s, features probably the most horrific image ever portrayed on a stamp: a decapitated body, with the inscription ‘May 29, July 29, September 29. Nigerian Pogrom 1966, 30,000 massacred’.

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Ottoman advances into Sinai in the early part of the war were soon reversed, and by 1917 British and other Allied forces were advancing through what was then Ottoman-occupied Palestine. In autumn they took Beersheba and in December, in time for Christmas, General Allenby entered Jerusalem on foot.

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Many of us have them sitting in drawers or attics – old stamp albums that we filled eagerly as children, or that our parents or relatives did. Many of these will have attractive covers, which themselves will speak of bygone times

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