Postgate had revised four previous editions following HG Wells' death in 1946, published in 1949, 1956, 1961 and 1969.
Nicholas Postgate (1596 or 1597—1679), English Catholic martyr
Clangers, a television series by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin
Having produced the live Alexander the Mouse, and the filmed The Adventures of Ho for his employers Associated Rediffusion/ITV in partnership with Firmin, Oliver Postgate and his partner set up Smallfilms in a disused cow shed at Firmin's home in Blean near Canterbury, Kent.
John Percival Postgate (24 October 1853 – 15 July 1926) was an English classicist, professor of Latin at the University of Liverpool from 1909 to 1920.
Although the series is made very much in the style of Oliver Postgate's Smallfilms, much of the background humour is in a similar vein to that of Aardman Animation's Creature Comforts.
Matthew Postgate, Controller, Research and Development, BBC