GBPS Site Updates

Video of 18th November afternoon Zoom presentation (plus PowerPoint/PDF versions) added to GBPS YouTube channel – Chris Harman, Perkins Bacon Revenues

Updated files: Plating Group amendments for letterings AA, AB, BF, EG, FA, FE, HC, HE, HI, IA, JJ, JL, KJ, LC, LI, NA, NK, PJ, PL, QF, QG, SA, SI, TA, TC

Video of 18th November morning Zoom presentation (plus PowerPoint/PDF versions) added to GBPS YouTube channel – Ian Harvey, Machin Books - Planning and Production

New phone number and prices for GBPS merchandise including Journal binders

Line engraved plate repairs tool updated with all repaired 1d plates up to plate 62 (except plate 38)

New download (PDF): the complete Collect British Postal Stationery by Alan Huggins and Colin Baker (2007) is now available for download by logged-in GBPS members

PDFs added: GB Journal 61/6 and Newsletter 404

GB Journal 61/6 content indexed

Newsletter 404 content indexed

Video of 28th October morning Zoom presentation (plus PowerPoint and PDF versions) added to the GBPS YouTube channel – Hugh Feldman, The Mail Coach Age in Britain

New file (PDF): Minutes of Evidence taken before the Committee appointed to consider of the Agreement made with Mr. Palmer for the Reform and Improvement of the Post-office and its Revenue (1813) added (examinations of witnesses)

New file (PDF): The De La Rue History of British & Foreign Postage Stamps 1855 to 1901 by John Easton (1958)

New file (PDF): Discriminatory pricing in relation to the supply of bulk mail delivery services in the UK (2018) – the Ofcom decision report

Updated pages with new 2 October 2023 inland rates

2nd October Post Office Leaflets for new standard, business, and online prices added

PDFs added: GB Journal 61/5 and Newsletter 403

GB Journal 61/5 content indexed

Newsletter 403 content indexed

New Section: Cross Post – archive of all 63 issues of this 1985-2017 publication of the Friends of the National Postal Museum added

12th July Post Office Leaflet for online prices added

General update to links section – links added/updated, non-working links removed

New leaflet added: Nightrider Service (1980s)

Line engraved plate repairs tool updated with 1d plates 25, 27, 28, and 30

New leaflet added: Post Your Parcels (1938)

New display: Machin Definitives – Design, Technology and Production – Scott Kibby (240 sheets)

Video of 15th July afternoon Zoom presentation added to the GBPS YouTube channel – Tony Fisher, Unusual and Rare Items in my Collection

Line engraved plate repairs tool updated with 1d plate 21

PDFs added: GB Journal 61/4 and Newsletter 402

Winners of the 2023 Society Awards announced at the AGM added

Programme for the 2023-24 season meetings added

GB Journal 61/4 content indexed

Newsletter 402 content indexed

New download: Foreign and Colonial Post (Insured Boxes) Warrant 1908 added

Tool for calculating rates to/via France 1843-54 added to the Rate Tools section

Line engraved plate repairs tool updated with 1d plate 18

Books out of print: lists updated as KGVI Low Value Definitive Stamps, Part 1 of British Stamp Booklets, and The Post Office and the Colleges have now sold out

New file (PDF): The Great Britain Philatelic Society 1955-2023 – the souvenir booklet issued to mark 400 editions of the GBPS Newsletter

New book: Books of Stamps with Invalidated Panes 1904-1943 by Ian Harvey added to the book sales list

PDFs added: GB Journal 61/3 and Newsletter 401

New display: Registered Express Mail – Austin Davis (24 sheets)

Line engraved plate repairs tool updated with 1d plate 17

Updated pages with new 3 April 2023 inland, overseas airmail and surface rates

Line engraved plate repairs tool updated with 1d plate 16

Additional Act of Parliament text added: Revenue, Friendly Societies and National Debt Act 1882

GB Journal 61/3 content indexed

Newsletter 401 content indexed

Links to eight new external displays added

Stanton Booklet Cards listing updated with a spreadsheet of the contents of the cards

3rd April Post Office Leaflets for new standard, business, and online prices added

New display: Development and Usage of the World's First Postage Stamps – Simon Beresford‑Wylie (272 sheets)

Updated files: Plating Group amendments for letterings FF, IA, ID, MA, PF, PJ, TL

One general and two airmail Post Office Leaflets added

Video of 18th March afternoon Zoom presentation (plus PowerPoint and PDF versions) added to the GBPS YouTube channel – Chris Harman, GBPS Competitions Day 2023

Video of 18th March morning Zoom presentation (plus PowerPoint and PDF versions) added to the GBPS YouTube channel – Norman Watson, Suffragettes and the Post

New displays: 2023 competition entries added to displays pages

Winners added for 2023 Annual Competitions

2023 entries added to the Competitions section

PDFs added: GB Journal 61/2 and Newsletter 400

GB Journal 61/2 content indexed

Newsletter 400 content indexed

New file (PDF): Report from the Committee appointed to consider the present state of the Communications by Railroad (1838) added (consideration of how mails were to be conveyed by rail)

Video of 18th February morning Zoom presentation (plus PowerPoint and PDF versions) added to the GBPS YouTube channel – Chris Harman, Spot the Fake!

Video of 14th January afternoon Zoom presentation (plus PowerPoint and PDF versions) added to the GBPS YouTube channel – Scott Kibby, GB Machins Essays Proofs and Trials

Library list updated with new additions

PowerPoint and PDF versions for the 14th January Zoom presentation added – GBPS Members, Short Displays

Video of 14th January morning Zoom presentation added to the GBPS YouTube channel – GBPS Members, Short Displays

Updated files: Plating Group amendments for 41 letterings

PDFs added: GB Journal 61/1 and Newsletter 399

GB Journal 61/1 content indexed

Newsletter 399 content indexed

PowerPoint and PDF versions for the 10th December Zoom presentation added – Jean Alexander, Christmas with the Stamp Advisory Committee 1977-2013

3rd January Post Office Leaflets for business and online prices added

The GBPS Discussion Boards have been updated to the latest version of the phpBB board software

Revised files (PDF): Penny Red Stars Used Abroad (10th Edition) and A Rearrangement into Numerical Order of the Measurements in The Plating of the Penny (6th Edition), both by Mike Batty

New files (PDF): Complete version of the 19th Report of Commissioners of Inquiry (Post Office Ireland, 1829) added. In two files, now including all the appendices

Video of 10th December Zoom presentation added to the GBPS YouTube channel – Jean Alexander, Christmas with the Stamp Advisory Committee 1977-2013

New page: photos of the GBPS display to the Royal Philatelic Society London added to the Galleries section

Updated page: the list of railway letter rates has been revised and extended to 1984, with the rates for Northern Ireland added. Some corrections based on official data have been made, and references included.

PDFs added: GB Journal 60/6 and Newsletter 398

New tool: for identifying plate repairs on the line engraved stamps. (See the article by Tony Wells in Newsletter 398, pp29-30.)

Updated pages: the airmail rate pages have been brought up to date as far as the latest November 2022 changes

Updated page: added the official end date for the Jury Summons service

GB Journal 60/6 content indexed

Newsletter 398 content indexed

Video of 12th November morning presentation added to the GBPS YouTube channel – David Wilson, Quite A Lot About Not Very Much [½d values] (PDF also available)

New leaflet: Second Class Mail to Abroad (1938)

Late 2022 Post Office Leaflets for business and online prices added

Links to six new video presentations added

New file (PDF): British Philatelic Bulletin special publication 1 added
(1985/86 British Special Stamps)

New file (PDF): British Philatelic Bulletin special publication 16 added
(Queen's Diamond Jubilee 2012)

New files (PDFs): British Philatelic Bulletin special publications 3-15 added

New display: Undeliverable Mail and the Returned Letter Offices During the 18th and 19th Centuries – Robert Galland (64 double‑width sheets)

Updated files (PDFs): British Philatelic Bulletin Vol.1 Nos.4-10 and Vol.2 – scans of photocopies replaced with scans from originals

New file (PDFs): British Philatelic Bulletin Vols.53-55 added – set of downloads of all regular editions now complete

Updated files (PDFs): British Philatelic Bulletin Vol.1 Nos.1-3 – scans of photocopies replaced with scans from originals

New file (PDFs): British Philatelic Bulletin Vol.3 No.1 added – Vol.3 now complete

New sections: GBPS Competitions and Awards, including the new rules for 2023 and the updated entry form (PDF)

PDFs added: GB Journal 60/5 and Newsletter 397

GB Journal 60/5 content indexed

Newsletter 397 content indexed

New files (PDFs): British Philatelic Bulletin – Volumes 56-59 (and vol. 55 no. 12) added

Passed by BPA spreadsheet and details updated

New files (PDF): Five Parliamentary Returns for the year 1841 on matters relating to the Post Office added

New files (PDFs): British Philatelic Bulletin – Volumes 49-52 added

New files (PDF): Seven Parliamentary Returns for the year 1841 on matters relating to the Post Office added

New page: listing of countries to which the Empire/Commonwealth reduced rate applied and the dates for each country

New files (PDFs): British Philatelic Bulletin – 11 previously missing editions added

New file (PDF): Krag Machine Postmarks of Great Britain & Ireland by Paul T. Carter (2022)

New files (PDF): Six miscellaneous Post Office leaflets c.1976-83 added

Extended Section: The page of Postal Museum information sheets has been expanded to include a range of NPM/BPMA/TPM documents

New downloads: 52 Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post warrants 1894-1906 added

Video of 16th July Zoom presentation added to the GBPS YouTube channel – Chris Hibbert, Additional Strikes of the Maltese Cross (PDF version also available)

New Section: The Philatelic Review – archive of all 21 issues of this 1977-82 Candlish-McCleery publication focusing on GB material added

New files (PDF): UK Taxe Marks for International Mail 1875-2000 – Usage and Listing by Ken Snelson (2007), plus the update (2022)

New file (PDF): William Dockwra and the Rest of the Undertakers by T.Todd (1952)

New file (PDF): King George V One Penny Downey Head – A Reference Guide by Colin Wilde (2022)

PDFs added: GB Journal 60/4 and Newsletter 396

GB Journal 60/4 content indexed

Newsletter 396 content indexed

Winners of the 2022 Society Awards announced at the AGM added

Video of 18th June morning presentation added to the GBPS YouTube channel – Graham Winters, Some Help With Exhibiting (PDF version also available)

New Section: The British Philatelist – archive of all 44 volumes of this 1908-54 Charles Nissen publication focusing on GB material added

New Section: British Philatelic Bulletin – archive of most editions of the first 48 volumes 1963-2010 added

New display: Moveable Box Mail Under the Anglo-French Postal Conventions – Doug McGill (80 sheets)

Video of 21st May afternoon presentation added to the GBPS YouTube channel – Chris Harman, Classic British Private Posts (PDF version also available)

Video of 21st May morning presentation added to the GBPS YouTube channel – Jonathan Callaway, The Paper Money Histories of England, Scotland, and Ireland (PDF version also available)

New file (PDF): Effects of the 1971 PO Strike on FDCs (notes and record of a collection) by Roger Bloomfield (2011)

Updated files (PDF): Lists of Directories Available Free on the Internet for London, England provincial, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland by John Copeland (2022)

PDFs added: GB Journal 60/3 and Newsletter 395

GB Journal 60/3 content indexed

Newsletter 395 content indexed

New files (PDF): Ten miscellaneous Post Office leaflets 1957-94 added

New files (PDF): Postal Decimalisation Bulletins Nos. 2 and 3 (1970) – official staff updates on the change to decimal currency

Video of 23rd April presentation added to the GBPS YouTube channel – Ray Simpson and Karl Louis, Victorian Mixed Franking Covers (PDF version also available)

Updated Tool: Post Offices of the UK Name/County Search – PDF files updated to the latest versions

New display: The 1937 Coronation Stamp of King George VI: Cylinder 23 – Robin Restall (38 sheets)

New display: The 1937 Coronation Stamp of King George VI: Cylinder 19 – Robin Restall (12 sheets)

New display: The 1937 Coronation Stamp of King George VI: Cylinder 16 – Robin Restall (22 sheets)

New display: Evolution of the British Franking System – Robert Galland (64 double‑width sheets)

New display: The 1937 Coronation Stamp of King George VI: Cylinder 8 – Robin Restall (18 sheets)

New display: The 1937 Coronation Stamp of King George VI: Cylinder 2 – Robin Restall (36 sheets)

New display: Preparation of the First Queen Elizabeth High Values – Peter Shaw (56 sheets)

PDFs added: GB Journal 60/2 and Newsletter 394

GB Journal 60/2 content indexed

Newsletter 394 content indexed

Updated display: Troubles and Transition - Ireland 1900 to 1930 – Peter Wood (full 162 sheet version replacing previous 25 sheet extract)

New page: photos of the London 2022 meeting added to the Galleries section

New displays: The 2d Jubilee of Queen Victoria and The 4d Jubilee of Queen Victoria – both Phil Waud

Updated pages with new 4 April 2022 overseas airmail and surface rates

Updated pages with new 4 April 2022 inland rates

2022 Post Office Leaflets for standard, business, and online prices added

GB Journal subject and stamp issue indexes updated with articles from volumes 58-60

Updated file (PDF): Links to Legislation of the British Isles Available Free on the Internet by John Copeland (2022)

Revised file: Penny Red Stars Used Abroad (new 9th Edition) by Mike Batty (revised format for ease of printing)

New file (PDF): G-men of the GPO by F.C.Cartwright (1937) – reminiscences of a Chief Investigator

New file (PDF): A Beacon for the Blind, being a life of Henry Fawcett, the blind Postmaster-General by Winifred Holt (1915)

New file (PDF): The History of the Early Postmarks of the British Isles down to 1840 by John Hendy (1905) – a classic early work on postmarks

New files (PDF): St Martin's-le-Grand – The Post Office Magazine volumes 1 to 14 (1890-1904)

Updated pages with new 4 January 2022 online rates for inland parcels and International Tracked to Europe and Zone 3

Revised file: A Rearrangement into Numerical Order of the Measurements in The Plating of the Penny (new 5th Edition) by Mike Batty

Revised file: Penny Red Stars Used Abroad (new 9th Edition) – Mike Batty

Video and presentation files for the GBPS Competitions Day 2022 meeting added to the GBPS YouTube channel

Library list updated with new additions

PDFs added: GB Journal 60/1 and Newsletter 393

New file (Excel): Archer Covers Survey in Plate Order – Ray Simpson's listing of recorded Archer covers, as referenced in GBJ 60/1

GB Journal 60/1 content indexed

Newsletter 393 content indexed

New file (PDF): Postal Decimalisation Instructions (1970) – official staff handbook of the adaptations needed for the change to decimal currency

New file (PDF): Letters in Transit by Frank Singleton (1944) – wartime mail handling, part of the British Council series "Britain Advances"

Links to seven new video presentations added

New display: The 1937 Coronation Stamp of King George VI: Cylinder 30 – Robin Restall

New display: Repaired Impressions of Die I 1d Red Plates 12-40 – Kevin Maunder

Presentation files for the GBPS Christmas 2021 Zoom meeting added to the GBPS meeting videos page

Video of the GBPS Christmas 2021 Zoom meeting added to the GBPS YouTube channel

New display: British Empire Exhibition – Wembley Park 1924/25 – David Ogden

New display: British Empire Exhibition – Promotional and Advertising Labels – David Ogden

New display: The 1937 Coronation Stamp of King George VI: Pre‑Release Covers – Robin Restall

New files (PDF): The "Chinchen Papers" – listings and background of National Insurance and related revenue stamps (2007)

Video of 20th November presentation added to the GBPS YouTube channel – Maurice Buxton, Decimalisation and the Post Office (PowerPoint/PDF versions also available)

PDFs added: GB Journal 59/6 and Newsletter 392

GB Journal 59/6 content indexed

Newsletter 392 content indexed

Links to six new video presentations added

New file: Listing of HM Forces Rates (1968) – supplied by the Ministry of Defence

Video of the GBPS Guest Presentation for the Collectors Club of New York added to the GBPS YouTube channel

New downloads: Inland Post Amendment Warrant 1897 and the Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 1) Warrant 1906 added (and the Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Warrant 1906 updated to original version)

New downloads: 100 Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post warrants 1906-1923 and the Foreign and Colonial Post (Amendment No. 3) Warrant 1898 added

New downloads: 18 Foreign and Colonial Post warrants 1892-1906 added

New downloads: 16 Inland Post warrants 1892-1902 added

New download: Inland Post Amendment (No. 7) Warrant 1906 added

The 2021 GBPS Competitions are being revised to incorporate elements of the virtual competitions that were run in 2020. See this post for details

New downloads: 25 Inland Post warrants 1903-22 added

October 2021 Post Office Leaflets for business and online prices added

Updated pages with new 4 October 2021 online rates for International Tracked to Europe, Zone 1, Zone 2, and Zone 3

New file (PDF): The Last of the Mail Coach Guards by Moses Nobbs (1891)

New downloads: 22 Foreign and Colonial Post warrants 1907-21 added

Updated file (PDF): Links to Legislation of the British Isles Available Free on the Internet by John Copeland (2021)

Updated meetings: programme notes added for October, November, and December meetings

Extended Section: the Plating Tool has been extended to allow the use of direct pixel measurements as well as the "E-Gauge", and to use various criteria to narrow the range of plates checked

Extended Section: the Postal Mechanisation Tools now include outward code data. Lists of keyings and code binaries and an extended introduction to the UK national coding system have also been added

PDFs added: GB Journal 59/5 and Newsletter 391

Updated page: added the previously omitted 29th September 1975 revision of the inland parcel rates

GB Journal 59/5 content indexed

Newsletter 391 content indexed

New file: Enid Marx Letters re Wilding design – correspondence with GPO and Harrisons re procedures etc (courtesy Frank Walton)

Autumn Stampex 2021 will be a ticketed event, so attendees at the GBPS meeting on the Saturday will need to register for a (free) Stampex ticket. See this post for details.

New file: British Forces Post Office Counter Compendium (British Army on the Rhine Edition) (c.1971) – transcript of POST 47/945

New file: Essays, Proofs, Colour Trials and Reprints of the Line-Engraved Stamps of Great Britain – Edward Denny Bacon

New file: Twenty Years of First Day Postmarks – Brian Pask and Colin Peachey
(kindly made available by the British Postmark Society)

Updated file: Life Span of the Printing Plates for QV Postage Stamps (latest 31st July 2021 version) – Allan Oliver

Programme for the 2021-22 season meetings added

New files: Two additional Parliamentary Reports regarding Boy Labour in the Post Office and State Provision for Wireless Telegraphy Research (1914)

New file: 60th Report of the Postmaster General (1914)

New Section: a preliminary listing of rates to and from HM Forces from 1930 added

PDFs of two 1934 campaigning leaflets (Better Air Mails and Reduce the Air Mail Rates) added to the downloads section and the airmail leaflets listing

Four scans of airmail leaflets from 1948, 1954, 1965 and 1968 added

List of books by date extended to include a historical record of out of print GBPS publications, and a separate list of update sheets added

PDFs added: GB Journal 59/4 and Newsletter 390

Updated file: Life Span of the Printing Plates for QV Postage Stamps (latest 7th July 2021 version) – Allan Oliver

GB Journal 59/4 content indexed

Newsletter 390 content indexed

Winners of the 2021 Society Awards announced at the AGM added

Officers and Consultants list updated: Andy Donaldson and Peter Lister elected as Vice Presidents

Videos of the 26th June AGM room reports and presentations added to the GBPS YouTube channel

GBPS members attending the 2021 AGM on 26th June using Zoom can download the Annual Report and Accounts and the Officers' Reports via this post on the GBPS discussion boards

New file: Postman Higher Grade Training Materials (1965) – a Post Office training school course

New file: The Scotch Itinerary Containing the Roads Through Scotland – James Duncan (1808)

New file: Report on the Financial Administration of the British Post Office (prepared for the Canadian Postmaster-General, 1887)

Revised file: Penny Red Stars Used Abroad (new 8th Edition) – Mike Batty

New file: Queen Victoria Stamped to Order Postcards – Maurice Buxton (PDF of the Zoom presentation)

Library list updated with new additions

ABPS News Summer 2021 available for download by members

Videos of the 22nd May room presentations added to the GBPS YouTube channel (PowerPoint and PDF versions also available) – Chris Harman, Revenues from the 17th to the 19th Centuries and John Davies, A Jubilee Reminiscence

New files: Three additional Parliamentary Returns regarding printing and perforating Postage Label Stamps (1851-52)

New files: Two additional Parliamentary Reports – Return of Rates of Postage charged on Letters conveyed between the UK and British Colonies and Possessions (1848) and Report from the Select Committee on Newspaper Stamps (1851)

New file: 52nd Report of the Postmaster General (1906)

PDFs added: GB Journal 59/3 and Newsletter 389

New file: Report from the Select Committee on Postage Label Stamps (1852) (courtesy Ray Simpson)

GB Journal 59/3 content indexed

Newsletter 389 content indexed

New file: A General Survey of GB Stamps – ed. Hassan Shaida (The GB Journal Vol.28 No.2, special edition for Stamp World London 1990, made freely available)

Updated file: Life Span of the Printing Plates for QV Postage Stamps (latest 9th May 2021 version) – Allan Oliver

Updated Tool: Post Offices of the UK Name/County Search data update completed (and now also includes Crown Dependencies)

Video of the 24th April Zoom meeting – David Wilson, Uses of Postage Due and To Pay Labels – added to the GBPS YouTube channel (PowerPoint and PDF versions of the presentation also available)

Links to registration sheet for 1d Red Die 1 Plate 81 (previously missing from The Postal Museum site) added here and on the registration sheets listing

New page: one meeting added to Galleries section

Updated page: 1 April 2021 online rates for Special Delivery by 1pm added

Four April/May 2021 Post Office Leaflets added

Navigation updated to allow paging through GB Journal, GBPS Newsletter, and GBCC Chronicle yearly listings with the keyboard using left/right arrow keys

Update added: collated amendments to English and Welsh Spoon Cancels 1853-70 by Richard Arundel, revised edition edited by Russell Taylor now downloadable

New Section: Post Office Leaflets (the separate Air Mail Leaflets page has been transferred to this section)

New downloads: 3 Foreign and Colonial/Imperial and Foreign Parcel Post warrants 1925-35 added

New downloads: 6 Foreign and Colonial Post warrants 1921-24 added

New download: Foreign and Colonial Post Warrant 1925 added

New Section: Maps of Great Britain and Ireland with mileages pre-1840

Video of the 27th March Zoom meeting – Norman Watson, How newspapers described and influenced usages of the Penny Black – added to the GBPS YouTube channel (PowerPoint and PDF versions of the presentation also available)

Also added: GBPS introductory video

The GBPS have booth C15 at Virtual Stampex – including a chatroom

New file: An Actual Survey of the Great Post Roads Between London and Edinburgh – Mostyn John Armstrong (1793)

The full text of Barred Numeral Cancellations of England and Wales by John Parmenter, David Luckly, Ken Smith, and Prof. Cedric Prys-Roberts (revised and updated for 2021) is now available for download as a series of volumes by county

Updated files:

Listing of UK Postal Treaties available free on the Internet – John Copeland

Listing of UPU Conventions/related documents available free on the Internet – John Copeland

Officers and Consultants list updated:

Scott Kibby – QEII Decimal Issues Consultant
(Ian Harvey – now QEII Pre-Decimal Issues Consultant)

PDFs added: GB Journal 59/2 and Newsletter 388

GB Journal 59/2 content indexed

Newsletter 388 content indexed

Video of the 27th February Zoom meeting – Maurice Buxton, The 1971 Postal Strike – added to the GBPS YouTube channel (PowerPoint and PDF versions of the presentation also available)

Updated page: added previously omitted 4th July 2002 revision of higher inland rates

Revised file: A Rearrangement into Numerical Order of the Measurements in The Plating of the Penny (new 4th Edition) – Mike Batty

Revised file: Penny Red Stars Used Abroad (new 7th Edition) – Mike Batty

PowerPoint and PDF versions added for two further meeting videos (members only)

PowerPoint and PDF versions added for several meeting videos (members only)

Announcement from the PTS: Registration is Open for Virtual Stampex 25-27th March

Updated file: The Sub Office Postmarks of Sheffield – Frank Walton (2nd edition 2021) – higher resolution version

Video of the GBPS Virtual Competitions Day Zoom meeting added to the GBPS YouTube channel

Winners added to list of 2021 "Virtual Annual Competitions" displays

The 2021 "Virtual Annual Competitions" displays are now available for viewing

New file (PDF): Rules for Head Postmasters in England and Wales (1860)

New display: Embossed Duty Stamps – Cypher Labels – Denis Noe

Updated file (PDF): Listing of Post Office numbers, P.1013E (1962) – improved version with searchable text

Cancelled meetings: 20th March 2021 (QV Mixed Franking Covers and Members' Displays - Mixed/Unusual Frankings) and 17th April 2021 (Stamps Issued in Rolls - KGV to QEII and £sd Regionals 1958-1971)

Updated display: The 1971 Postal Strike – Maurice Buxton (improved scans)

Updated file: The Sub Office Postmarks of Sheffield – Frank Walton (2nd edition 2021)

PDFs added: GB Journal 59/1 and Newsletter 387

Updated page: corrected Zone 1/Zone 2 entries for 16th September 1991 revision in airmail small packets rates table

One video from Virtual Stampex 2020 (The Line Engraved Stamps of GB 1840-1880) and a listing of open access GBPS YouTube channel videos added

GB Journal 59/1 content indexed

Newsletter 387 content indexed

New file (PDF): PO Engineering Department Photos of TPO Operations (c.1960?)

Two additional videos from the GB Collectors' Conference added to the GBPS YouTube channel

Video of the GBPS Christmas 2020 Zoom meeting added to the GBPS YouTube channel. (The Christmas Quiz can be downloaded here.)

Six videos from the GB Collectors' Conference added to the GBPS YouTube channel

Library list updated with new additions

Updated file (PDF): GPO Staff Handbook for Manipulative Grades (1967-8) – improved version

Updated page: specific date added to the Island Packets to 1839 listing for the start of the Shetland packets

Updated file (PDF): Links to Legislation of the British Isles Available Free on the Internet by John Copeland (2020)

Updated file (PDF): Rg54 Instructions for Dealing with High Value Packets (1939) – photographed version replaced by scanned/OCR'd version

Updated pages with new 1 January 2021 rates: inland, airmail, and surface

Cancelled meeting: 20th February 2021 (Spring Stampex Meeting)

New meetings: three online Zoom meetings added to the 2020-21 programme

Updated file: Listing of UK Postal Treaties available free on the Internet – John Copeland

Updated Tool: Post Offices of the UK Name/County Search – data revised to correct wrong ex-county allocations for town sub-offices

Correction to OJ 129 and slight alteration to presentation of results

New meeting video: Imprimaturs and the Post Office Telegraphs - Ian Pinwill

PDFs added: GB Journal 58/6 and Newsletter 386

GB Journal 58/6 content indexed

Newsletter 386 content indexed

Cancelled meeting: 21st November (KGVI and QEII Wildings Day)

The GBPS website has moved to a new package with SSL included (URLs now begin https:// not http://)

Updated files: Plating Group amendments for letterings AB, BF, EA, GF, HA, JJ, PE, QF, RI, SG, SH, SL, TH, TL

Notes amended to indicate the nature of commencement dates pre-1793, and 14 dates of actual Royal Assent added for significant postal Acts before this date

Links to 21 new external displays added

Extended display: Mixed Frankings of the 20th Century – Maurice Buxton

New meeting video: GB&CWPS and FgGB Presentation to the GBPS

Updated file: Life Span of the Printing Plates for QV Postage Stamps (latest version) – Allan Oliver

New display: Low Value Surface Printed Stamps (2½d to 2s) 1855 to 1884 – Robert Galland

Cancelled meeting: 17th October (G.B. to and through France before 1875 – Alan Kelsall and 40 years of British Internal Airmails – Peter Lister)

New/updated files in the Postal History section by John Olenkiewicz (2018 versions):
Edmund Dummer and Falmouth Packet Sailings to West Indies 1702-1841
Bristol and Falmouth Packet Sailings to North America 1710-1840
Falmouth Packet Sailings to Brazil 1808-1850
Falmouth Packet Sailings to South America 1824-1832

Added option to Plating Tool to load measured data for specific plates to find close alternatives

Updated data in Plating Tool for plates 1a and 1b

Option added to Plating Tool to show plating notes only for matched plates if preferred

New file (PDF): History of the Manchester Post Office 1625-1900 – Charles Calvert (1966-69)

New file (PDF): List of Post Offices in the United Kingdom – US Post Office Department (1872)

New listing: recordings of GBPS meetings and other presentations by members

Links to 108 new videos and one new video presentation added (videos now split into three pages for presentations, British Pathé documentary footage, and other documentary footage)

Cancelled meeting: 26th September "Penny Lilac Day"

PDFs added: GB Journal 58/5 and Newsletter 385

Updated file: Life Span of the Printing Plates for QV Postage Stamps (latest version) – Allan Oliver

Social distancing rules for GBPS meetings posted

GB Journal 58/5 content indexed

Newsletter 385 content indexed

Updated Tool: Post Offices of the UK Name/County Search data update completed

New display: The 1937 Coronation Stamp of King George VI: Cylinder 7 – Robin Restall

New meeting: 26th September "Penny Lilac Day" meeting at the RPSL added to the 2020-21 programme

New display: King Edward VIII 2½d Blue: The Study of an Incomplete Collection – Robin Restall

Revised file: A Rearrangement into Numerical Order of the Measurements in The Plating of the Penny (3rd Edition) – Mike Batty

Updated pages with new 1 September 2020 overseas rates: airmail, and surface

New meetings: four online Zoom meetings added to the 2020-21 programme

Further Acts of Parliament texts added:
Grant of John Palmer, Esquire (Post Office Services) Act 1813, Army Prize Money Act 1814, Board of Trade Act 1817, Public Works Loans Act 1817, Payments into Receipt of the Exchequer Act 1819, Transfer to Admiralty of Postal Contracts Act 1837, Packet Service, Securities Act 1860

Updated page: date for introduction of Railex 1lb rate corrected

Updated file: Listing of UPU Conventions/related documents available free on the Internet – John Copeland

New Tool: Post Offices of the UK Name/County Search, a searchable database of the information in Ken Smith's UK Post Offices by County project

Updated file: Listing of UK Postal Treaties available free on the Internet – John Copeland

GB Journal 58/4 content indexed

Newsletter 384 content indexed

GBPS YouTube channel started

Book out of print: Telegraph Stamps and Stationery of Great Britain by Peter Langmead and Alan Huggins

Updated page: missing 1970 rate added to the Railway Letters listing and a note added about differing Northern Ireland rates

New pages: 1 July 2020 rates for International Standard and International Confirmed to the new Zone 3 (USA) added

New file (PDF): Evening Delivery of Letters in the Suburbs of London (1859)

New file (PDF): A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam – James MacQueen (1838)

Updated page: the "Uniform Fourpenny Post" listing revised and expanded for clarity and to correct a misleading description of higher unpaid rates

New file (PDF) in Miscellaneous section: Mail Contracts with Irish Railways (1862-65)

Officers and Consultants list updated:

Chris Harman – President
John Davies – Publicity Officer

Three new Honorary Life Members announced

Seven new video presentations added (videos page now split into two pages for presentations and postal services documentary footage)

New display: The 1937 Coronation Stamp of King George VI: Cylinder 4 – Robin Restall

New files (PDF/Word): "Perforation Varieties" extract from Stamp Perforation: The Somerset House Years 1848-1880 – Simpson and Sargent (PDF), together with perforation pin illustrations for broken pin varieties (Word/PDF)

New display: King Edward VIII: A Study of the ½d Green Cylinder 15 – Robin Restall

New display: The 1937 Coronation Stamp of King George VI: Cylinder 6 – Robin Restall

Annual General Meeting 2020 documents available, including Officers' reports

New display: King Edward VIII 1½d Red-Brown, Control A/36, Cylinder 2: The Case of the Curious Coif – Robin Restall

New file (PDF): UPU Members and Dates of Joining – United Postal Stationery Society and James Bendon

New file (PDF): Philatelic Congress of Great Britain 1933, London – Colin Searle and Alan Spencer

Updated files: Plating Group amendments for letterings AA, AB, AF, AH, AJ, AL, HJ, IB, JK, ML, NE, PC, QE, RH, RJ, SI, TE

GB Journal 58/3 content indexed

Newsletter 383 content indexed

New files: postmark listings of Slogan Postmarks of the UK for 2000‑2012, 2013‑2018, and 2019, and In Depth UK Slogan Postmark Listings, 1917‑1959
(kindly made available by the British Postmark Society)

Updated page: the introduction to airmail priority services from 1993 revised in an attempt to make its explanation of these often confusingly named services clearer

New files (PDF) in Staff Handbooks section:
Express Delivery Service - Instructions to Sub-Postmasters (1908)
Rules for Working Lineside Mail Apparatus (1947)
List of Abbreviations of Titles in Common Use in the Post Office (1953)
List of Hand Stamps (Rubber and Metal) and Articles Connected Therewith (1961)

New file (PDF) in Staff Handbooks section:
Security and You - Follow this Book and Beat the Crook (1962)

Passed by BPA spreadsheet and details updated

New/updated pages: listing of Railex rates (1934-1980) added and rates for bulk receipts added to the certificates of posting page

New display: Bank Note Duty - Congreve Compound Plate Printing – Chris Harman

Acts of Parliament texts added: Customs Act 1662 and Newspapers Act 1855

New file (PDF): The Practical Method of the Penny-Post – William Dockwra (1681)

Updated file (PDF): The Registration "Rotary Device" – Maurice Buxton

New files (PDF): six new airmail leaflets added

New page: listing of railway letter rates (1891-1971)

Updated/new pages: added precise dates for 1992/2002 changes of inland parcel rates and notes regarding sources, and a listing of overseas Articles for the Blind rates

Updated file – correction made to transcription of 1936 warrant

Updated page – corrected 1915 and 1926 entries for Articles for the Blind in rates table

Updated pages: listing of UPU rates for printed papers, commercial papers and samples amended and extended back to 1875

Updated meetings: all remaining scheduled meetings in the 2019-20 programme have been cancelled until further notice due to the coronavirus situation

Updated meeting: the 21st March "Mixed Frankings" meeting has been cancelled due to the coronavirus situation

New display: Sir Rowland Hill's Postal Reform – Zhang Huadong

New pages: three meetings added to Galleries section

Library list updated with new additions

Notice added regarding GBPS Dinner during London 2020

New page: listing of Jury Summons rates (1862-1996)

New file: decisions of 2019 Geneva Extraordinary Congress added to the UPU Conventions listing

GB Journal 58/2 content indexed

Newsletter 382 content indexed

New display: Post Office Telegraph Stamps 1875-1881 – Ian Pinwill

Updated meeting: details added for "President's Guest" display at June meeting (please note that this display will now be given by Steven Harrison)

Updated pages with new 23 March 2020 rates: inland, airmail, and surface

Updated file: Listing of Local Directories for English Provincial Locations available free on the Internet – John Copeland (2020)

New Section: Great Britain Postal Treaties (initial listing of 48 files of UPU Conventions and corresponding Additional Agreements)

New file (PDF): Report by the Postmaster General to the Treasury upon Complaints as to the Fife Mails (1866)

Revised file: Penny Red Stars Used Abroad (6th Edition) – Mike Batty

New file (PDF): The Future of Philately as Seen in 2018 by the W4 Group (2018)

New display: The Repaired Impressions of Die I Penny Red Plate 17 – Kevin Maunder

Updated meeting: details added for NE Regional Group meeting on 25th April (also see this link)

New file (PDF): Links to Legislation of the British Isles Available Free on the Internet by John Copeland (2020)

Updated meetings: programme notes added for March, April, and May London meetings

New file (PDF): Philatelic Research, A Basic Guide by David Beech (2019)

New ordering address for GBPS merchandise including Journal binders

GB Journal 58/1 content indexed

Newsletter 381 content indexed

Typos corrected in overseas surface and airmail express rates for 1979 revision

Updated Express Delivery on Sunday section to add Abbey Wood, Charlton, Eltham and Woolwich 1913-19 rates

Updated files: Plating Group amendments for letterings GG, GI, GL, HJ, HK, HL, IG, IK, IL, JG, JL, KF, KI

Share links for Tumblr added across the site

New Section: Great Britain Collectors Club Chronicle complete (nos. 1-159)

New files (PDF): Advice from the Undertakers of the Penny Post (1681)
The Post Office and Aids to Thrift (1881)

The US-based Great Britain Collectors Club has merged with the GBPS – for details see this thread

New display: A Study of GB Low Value Definitives 1934 to 1971 – John Gowland

GB Journal 57/6 content indexed

Newsletter 380 content indexed

New files (PDFs): Harris Brothers Universal Post Office Guide (1847)
Fifty Years of Philately, The History of Stanley Gibbons Ltd by Charles Phillips (1906)

Newsletter listings updated with direct links to PDFs from author/subject pages and illustrations of content

Updated meetings: programme notes added for January and February meetings

Updated files: Plating Group amendments for letterings EC, FJ, FL, GL, OI, RJ, TE, TL

Six new links added to external sites

Updated meeting: details added for NE Regional Group meeting on 19th October (also see this link)

New display: C9 Zones! - Back to distance charging? – George King

PDF files of Newsletters have been compressed and significantly reduced in size (this will make them quicker to download)

PDF files of displays have been compressed and significantly reduced in size (this will make them quicker to download)

Omitted 1966-68 Commonwealth surface postcard rate added

Share links for email added across the site

Share links for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest added across the site

Updated meetings: programme notes added for September to December meetings

Updated files: Plating Group amendments for letterings AH, AI, DB, IE, JB, ML, OA, PA, PC, PH, QH

Omitted rate change corrected in Special Delivery rates for 1980 revision

GB Journal 57/5 content indexed

Newsletter 379 content indexed

New file (PDF): The Development of the Post Office by the Fabian Research Department (1916)

New file (PDF): Evidence Given Before the Inter-Departmental Committee on Post Office Establishments (as given by the Postmen's Federation, 1896)

Updated files: Plating Group amendments for letterings AD, AE, AH, AJ, BF, CA, CC, CE, CK, DG, EF, EH, RA, SI

New file (PDF): New Air Parcel Rates to Europe, 1st October 1934

New files (PDFs): Forty Years at the Post-Office by F.E.Baines (1895), in two volumes

New files (PDFs): Original Letters Written During the Reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, Edward V, Richard III, and Henry VII by Sir John Fenn, in five volumes

New file (PDF): Report from the Committee Appointed to Consider the Agreement made with Mr. Palmer (1797)

New files (PDFs): Report from the Committee on Letters Permitted to Pass Free (1735)
Report from the Committee on Frauds and Abuses in Letters free from Postage (1764)

New files (PDFs): Report from Select Committee on the New GPO (1820)
Report from Commissioners on Sunday Labour in the Post Office (1850)
Report from Select Committee on Waterford etc Postal Arrangements (1855)
Report from Select Committee on Packet and Telegraphic Contracts (1859)
Report from Select Committee on Royal Atlantic Steam Navigation Company (1861)
Report from Select Committee on Mail Contracts (1869)
Report from Select Committee on the Telegraph Bill (1869)

New files (PDFs): 10th Report of Commissioners of Enquiry Into Fees, Gratuities, Perquisites, and Emoluments - Post Office (1793)
6th Report of Select Committee on Finance - Stamp Office (1797)
7th Report of Select Committee on Finance - Post Office (1797)
Report of Select Committee on Post Office Communications with Ireland (1842)

New pages: listing of overseas Phonopost rates for surface and airmail (1966-71)

Links to five new external displays added

New downloads: 5 Imperial and Foreign Post warrants 1930-38 added

New downloads: 6 Imperial and Foreign Post warrants 1938-43 added

New file: Postal Sanctions Against Rhodesia 1965 to 1980 by Mike Hughes (by kind permission of the Rhodesian Study Circle)

New files: Proclamation of Philip & Mary establishing post between London & Dover and Proclamation of Elizabeth I prohibiting unauthorised postal service

New display: The £5 Orange – John Horsey

New file: Report from the Committee Appointed to Enquire into Certain Abuses
in the Post Office (1797)

New files:
The New Post Office (Gentlemans Magazine, 1829)
The Justice and Profit of a Uniform Penny Postage (British & Foreign Review, 1839)
The State and Prospects of Penny Postage by Rowland Hill (1843)
Cheap Telegraphs; or Telegrams for the Million by the United Kingdom Electric Telegraph Company (1861)

GB Journal 57/4 content indexed

Newsletter 378 content indexed

New files: Slogan Postmarks catalogues volumes 1-5 (1917-99) and detailed town-by-town listings volumes 1-4 (1960-99)
(kindly made available by the British Postmark Society)

Announcement of Waterlow and Sons History Lecture, 3rd September

Competition and Award Winners list updated
Officers and Consultants list updated: David Beech – Vice-President

Further Acts of Parliament texts added:
Duties on Post Horses, etc. Act 1785,  Post Office Act 1795

Further Acts of Parliament texts added:
Appropriation, etc. Act 1785,  Customs and Excise Act 1787

Further Act of Parliament text added:  Post Office Act 1969

Acts of Parliament listings extended beyond Queen Victoria era up to present day, with separate lists by reign

Further Acts of Parliament texts added:
3 George III,  2 Victoria,  6 Edward VII,  9 George V,  1 George VI,  5 Elizabeth II

Updated section: Links to images of the Registration Sheet Photos from The Postal Museum (TPM) updated to new TPM filenames, links to photos of reverses added

Library list updated with new additions

Further notice regarding AGM Meeting at Dorchester Hotel

Further Acts of Parliament texts added:
Postal Service Act 1815,  Post Office Act 1848,  Colonial Inland Post Office Act 1849,  Post Office Lands Act 1863,  Telegraph Act 1868,  Telegraph Act 1869,  Post Office and Telegraph Act 1897

Further Acts of Parliament texts added:
Customs, etc. Act 1769,  Parliament Act 1782 (c.41),  Parliamentary Elections (Ireland) Act 1803,  Postage Act 1804,  Post Office Act 1806,  Post Office Act 1807 (s.2 c.59),  Postage Act 1808 (c.90),  Postage Act 1810 (c.66),  Postage Act 1812 (c.13),  Post Roads (Ireland) Act 1832,  Interpretation Act 1889,  Post Office Act 1892,  Post Office Amendment Act 1895

New downloads: 9 Inland Post warrants 1923-35 added

New downloads: 11 Commonwealth and Foreign Parcel Post warrants 1950-65 added

New downloads: 9 British Postal Agencies warrants 1954-68 added

New downloads: 7 Commonwealth and Foreign Post warrants 1948-52 added

New downloads: 3 Commonwealth and Foreign Post warrants 1954-57 added

New downloads: 6 Commonwealth and Foreign Post warrants 1959-65 added

Updated files: Plating Group amendments for letterings AB, AK, HG, IJ, LH, MD, RG, TE

New downloads: 8 Inland Post warrants 1936-46 added

New download: 1 Inland Post warrant 1947 added

New downloads: 5 Post Office Warrants for Commonwealth and Foreign Post 1965-69 added

New page and downloads: 17 Post Office (and BT) Inland Telegram Schemes 1970-82

New Section: Post Office Warrants 1893-1969 (initial selection of 27 inland warrants 1948-68)

GB Journal 57/3 content indexed

Newsletter 377 content indexed

Updated meeting: Candlish McCleery will no longer be the dealer on 22nd June 2019 for the AGM at the Dorchester Hotel

Further Act of Parliament text added:  Customs and Inland Revenue Act 1881

Further Acts of Parliament texts added:
Postage Act 1806,  Post Office (Duties) Act 1860,  Post Office Savings Bank Act 1863,  Post Office (Newspaper) Act 1881

Updated meeting: dealer for 27th April 2019 is Steven Scott Stamps

Further Acts of Parliament texts added:
Dublin Record Office Act 1814,  Post Office Savings Banks Act 1861,  Post Office (Duties) Act 1871

Updated file: Life Span of the Printing Plates for QV Postage Stamps (latest version) – Allan Oliver

Further Acts of Parliament texts added:
Post Office Act 1802,  Parliamentary Writs Act 1813

Further Acts of Parliament texts added:
Postage Act 1838,  Post Office (Money Orders) Act 1848,  Post Office Act 1875

New handout: The Story of the QV Jubilees – Philip Waud and David Wilmer

Further Acts of Parliament texts added:
Post Office Act 1870,  Post Office Act 1891

New page: listing of inland telegram rates (1870-1982)

Display navigation updated to allow paging through displays with the keyboard using left/right arrow keys and Home/End

Updated meetings: programme notes added for May and June meetings

GB Journal 57/2 content indexed

Newsletter 376 content indexed

Updated section: Links to images of the Registration Sheet Photos from The Postal Museum (TPM) updated to the new TPM filenames

New display: Inauguration of the Airmail Express Service between London and Paris 1919-20 – René Paschke-Güstrow

Links to three new external displays added

Updated page: precise 1936 date for flat-rate special delivery fee added

Act added: An act against robbing of the Packet (Scottish)

New file: Listing of UPU Conventions/related documents available free on the Internet – John Copeland

Announcement of details of FgGB Annual Philatelic Weekend in Wesel (Germany), 4-6 October

New page: listing of internal airmail rates (1919-48)

Updated files: Plating Group amendments for letterings AE, AF, AK, DJ, HJ, IH, JJ, OI, RJ, SJ, TI

New display: Wilding Low Values from Sheets – Frank Walton

Updated page: more detail added to redirection table, together with an additional table giving the rates for official redirection to a new address (1898 to date)

New display: King George V Postal Stationery in "Postcard Format" – Maurice Buxton

Updated pages with new 2019 rates: inland, airmail, and surface

New display: Queen Victoria Essays, Proofs and Trials – Peter Young

New display: Meter Franking: First Type Meter Marks – Mike Jackson

New display: QEII Registered Envelopes of the Tudor Rose Design – Frank Walton

New files: Special Event Postmarks of the United Kingdom volumes 1-5
(kindly made available by the British Postmark Society)

Venue change for 22nd June AGM meeting announced

Programme notes added for 27th April meeting

New page: Postal Treaties (some files moved from miscellaneous sources section)

New file: Listing of UK Postal Treaties available free on the Internet – John Copeland

New handout: GB Controls Used on Cover – James Heal

New display: GB Controls Used on Cover – James Heal

New display: Encapsulated Stamp Cards – Glenn Morgan

New display: Royal Household Mail – The Vidler Years 1990-2002 – Glenn Morgan

Updated display: Harrison Dummy Stamps of King George V – Glenn Morgan

Updated page: How to provide a display for the archive

Updated display: The Post Magazine Address Panel and its Decorative Borders 1840-53 – Phil Cheetham

Announcement of details of GB Collectors Group North East Meeting, 16th March

Links to three more internet societies added

Competition winners for 2019 added

New display: 'Red Cards': Mail Deemed Unacceptable at the Postcard Rate in the UK – Maurice Buxton (replaced the related display: 'On the Cards')

Book out of print: Discovering Seahorses by Bryan Kearsley

Passed by BPA spreadsheet and details updated

14 further links to external displays added from Frajola site

New files: 25 further Postal Museum information sheets

New file: Listing of British annual publications available free on the Internet

Site Updates page added!

Library list updated with new additions

GB Journal 57/1 content indexed

Newsletter 375 content indexed

Typo corrected in Inland Registration rates for 1963 revision

New display: Machin Greetings Card Sheets ('Boots' Sheets) – Glenn Morgan

New display: Unadopted Designs by Robert Sellar – Glenn Morgan

New display: The Penny Lilac – Peter Young

New file: GB Journal Volume 56 complete

New files: Listings of Local Directories available free on the Internet added for London, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Crown Dependencies

Sections moved from Downloads to Sources:

Post Office Guides

Airmail Leaflets

QEII Printing Data

Parliamentary Reports

PMG's Reports

Staff Handbooks

New file: Listing of Local Directories available free on the Internet added for English Provincial locations

New Section: Registration Sheet Photos from The Postal Museum

Updated files: Plating Group amendments for letterings AL, TL

PDF added: KEVII Essays and Proofs – Graham Horton

New Section: Treasury Warrants 1839-93

Announcement of project on Inks of the Penny Red

GB Journal 56/6 content indexed

Newsletter 374 content indexed

Revised document: new generic competition entry form

New display: British Post Offices in the Levant – QV and KEVII Periods – Tony Stanford

New display: British Post Offices in the Levant – KGV Period – Tony Stanford

PDF added: High Values – Queen Victoria to Queen Elizabeth II – Max Melrose

New handout: Postal Rates and Services During the Reign of King George V – Allan Jones

PDF added: Wilding Castles – Peter Shaw

PDF added: Decimal Castles – Peter Shaw

New display: Mixed Frankings of the 20th Century – Maurice Buxton

New file: The Sub Office Postmarks of Sheffield – Frank Walton

Links pages updated

Awards rules updated

Historical officers list updated

Competition rules updated

Competition and Award Winners list updated

GB Journal 56/5 content indexed

Newsletter 373 content indexed

Updated files: Plating Group amendments for letterings AD, AK, FE, IJ, RG, RH, RJ, TG

Application form updated

Several pages updated for better results when printing

GB Journal 56/4 content indexed

Newsletter 372 content indexed

Officers and Consultants list updated:

John Davies – President
Barry Stagg – King Edward VIII consultant
Graham Winters – King George VI consultant

Extended Section: GB Journal Downloads now available from Volume 1 to date

GB Journal index entries and contents by volume lists now include links to the relevant GB Journal PDFs

New handout: Before and After the 1840 Embossed Wyon-Whiting Essays – Alan Huggins

New display: Hand Painted Covers – Paul Ramsay

Updated files: Plating Group amendments for letterings AB, AE, AF, AH, BF, FL, GJ, HF, IA, IH, IK, JG, LE, SG, SH

GB Journal 56/3 content indexed

Newsletter 371 content indexed

New display: Pre Decimal Machins (full version) – Tony Walker

New display: The Post Magazine Address Panel and its Decorative Border – Phil Cheetham

New files:

British Stamp Exhibitions (4th Edition) Vol 1 Pt 1 (Sheets etc)

British Stamp Exhibitions (4th Edition) Vol 1 Pt 2 (Sheets etc)

British Stamp Exhibitions (4th Edition) Vol 2 (Booklets)

— all by Glenn Morgan and Graham Wilson

British Stamp Exhibitions (4th Edition) Vol 3 (Souvenir mail) – James Negus

New file: Dummy Stamps Newsletter Issues 1-25 – Glenn Morgan

New file: Dummy Stamps Newsletter Issue 26-50 – Glenn Morgan

New handout: English Postal History Prior to the Bishop Mark – Alan Holyoake

New handout: The Life and Times of the King George V Seahorses – Mike Kentzer

New handout: King George VI Postal History – Terry Wagg

New file: British Stamp Booklets Parts 1-9 – Jean Alexander and Leonard Newbery

New handout: British Perfins – Richard Husband

Revised file: Penny Red Stars Used Abroad (5th Edition) – Mike Batty

New Section: Stanton Booklet Cards – Lt-Col. J.B.M.Stanton

Library list updated with new additions

Updated files: Plating Group amendments for letterings AC, DI, EL, FB, KG, LL, NE, TK

Updated display: Britain's Marvelous Machins – Steve McGill

GB Journal 56/2 content indexed

Newsletter 370 content indexed

New display: The New Modern Meter Mail – George King

Updated pages with new 2018 rates: inland, airmail, and surface

Officers and Consultants list updated: Alan Vaughan – King Edward VII consultant

Act added: 36 George III cap 7 (Irish)

New display: The Sideways Experimental Duplex 1854-1858 – Ray Barton

New handout: Hand Painted Covers – Paul Ramsay

New display: NVI Machins 1989-2017 – Steve McGill

New display: Postal Mechanisation – Steve McGill

New display: Digital Stamps – George King

New display: District Office Cancels – Dave Simmons

New display: British Propaganda Envelopes of the 19th Century – Richard Hobbs

New handout: British Propaganda Envelopes of the 19th Century – Richard Hobbs

Revised file: Penny Red Stars Used Abroad (4th Edition) – Mike Batty

GB Journal 56/1 content indexed

Newsletter 369 content indexed