Back in the 1890s, the French government banned foreign ownership of the pigeonpost.
ECONOMIST: The comfort of strangers
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The Carnegie prize was founded in 1937 in memory of Scottish-born philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and was first awarded to Swallows And Amazons author Arthur Ransome for PigeonPost.
BBC: Roddy Doyle up for Carnegie Medal
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Each week, I post a video about some Pigeon of Discontent raised by a reader.