The Royal Philatelic Society London received more than twenty nominations for the Crawford Medal for books published during the years 2024 and 2025. The Society is pleased to announce the short list of six from which the Crawford Medal Committee will select the 2026...
AUSVIPEX (Australian Virtual Philatelic Exhibition) 2026 is an online National Philatelic Exhibition organised by the Australian Philatelic Federation (APF). It will be held in November 2026. Entries are open from 30 March to 30 September 2026. There will be 20...
Virtual Stampex, organised by The Philatelic Traders Society, is held once a year. This year it was held from 6 to 8 March. There were 20 talks given by different speakers on various philatelic topics over the three days. These talks, in English, can be currently seen...
The latest issue of Wolfgang Maassen’s quarterly digital journal “Phila Historica” is here. It can be downloaded for free from its website. Articles include an interview with the noted philatelist Chris King, Philately in Hamburg 1862-1900, the...
A note on the website of Académie de Philatélie informs us that Hervé Barbelin (1964-2026) passed away recently. Barbelin’s main philatelic interests were the pneumatic post office of Paris and history of philately in the 19th century. Apart from articles and...
