Marc Oxley

Our Webmaster Mark Bailey FRPSL has been updating the website. We now have the Minutes and Accounts from the last 3 AGM’s available to all members through the members portal. He has also been busy uploading back numbers of the Journal, starting with the first Issue in 1936, he is up to 1943. They are […]

ABPS Notice of Meetingand Agenda for Annual General MeetingSaturday 13 July 2024 at 09.45 am[To be held during the 105th Congress of Great Britainwhich will be held at the Leonardo Grand Harbour Hotel, Southampton 11-14 July 2024] For those who may not have seen the Agenda it can be found below.

Our 7th ZOOM Meeting for 2024 was held on Monday 1st July at 2.15 for 2.30. We had two Displays, the first from Robert McMillan FRPSL and the second from his wife Daphne McMillan FRPSL. Robert showed recent acquisitions to his collection of the Postal History of Kingston upon Hull and Daphne gave a display

The decision to implement a Relative support initiative was approved at June’s Council meeting. You will shortly be receiving the latest copy of the Society Journal which will include a flyer with more details. This has come about due to questions being asked by the families of members who have died, who were unsure who

By now you may have noticed some changes to the website. On the Members page you will see details of up and coming events with the relevant Booking Forms available to download. We have also introduced a Links page which can be viewed by clicking the link on the Home page. If you know of

The June PHS ZOOM meeting held on 4th June was very well received. We had an informative talk on the pre-stamp Postal History of Kings Lynn given by Mike Kentzner. It was punctuated with fine examples of the Mileage marks, Penny Post stamps and Town stamps of Kings Lynn up to 1840. The display was

This from the Society Auctioneer Peter Webb. The 2024 auction is to be held at the PHS congress at Redditch in October and is progressing well with plenty of nice material already submitted. The last chance to provide material for this auction will be at the joint PHS & RPSL meeting at York on 18th July.

We are looking forward to the Annual Joint Meeting with the Royal Philatelic Society London which is taking place at the Marriott Hotel in York on July 18th 2024. We have secured preferential rates for PHS members who wish to stay overnight. Please mention the PHS when you book your room. Rates are £120 for

The fourth PHS ZOOM meeting of 2024 was on Monday 6th May at 2.30pm.  We had 12 members attend and saw 2 fascinating displays. The first was given by Julian Bagwell on the British Levant 1855-1923 and we spent a very interesting hour in his company learning all about British Post Offices in the declining

At the Council meeting held on Friday 26th April, Council were very pleased to appoint Mike Hoffman as Council Member2. He will be assisting our Webmaster Mark Bailey FRPSL, as Deputy Webmaster. Another very influential addition to the team running the PHS. A warm welcome to him.

The Local meeting of the PHS on Wednesday May 15th 2024 at the Harnham Scout Hut, in West Harnham, nr Salisbury, was a great success. A most enjoyable day with the following displays: Mike Moody, WWI Silks;  Hugh Feldman, East Anglian mail Coach routes; Tony Stanford, Mail from Tangier & Tetuan censored in Gibraltar, WWII; Jeremy Martin,

At the recent ABPS Spring National Philatelic Exhibition 2024 the following PHS members won prizes Paul Latham-Warde Ephemera GB Postal Scales Best in Class Kim Stuckey Postal History West Falkland Large Gold Julian Jones Postal History Freight Money Letter Era 1838-1848 Large Vermeil Gerald Mariner,German Occupation of the Channel Islands – Disruption to the Mail

We had 11 participants for the April 2024 ZOOM meeting. 2 displays were shown, the first by a Canadian PHS Member Duncan Barber which dealt with GB Registered Express Letters 1912-1982 and the second by our Treasurer Julian Tweed FRPSL entitled Robert Mitford A Life in 11 letters a Napoleonic Gentleman. All present agreed they

At the Council meeting held on Monday 4th March Council were very pleased to appoint Joan Harmer from New York. Joan is the first Overseas representative on the Council and will be an important and hopefully very influential addition to the team running the PHS. A warm welcome to her.

The most recent ZOOM meeting was held on March 4th at 2.15pm when we were shown two displays. The first was given by Claire Scott FRPSL. A fascinating display of “Context Postal History” being a collection of letters home from the British Submariner William Greenall Coe covering the time from his basic training in 1912

This is a reminder that we are having a joint meeting with the Midlands (GB) Postal History Society on Saturday 16th March in the spacious Cavendish Auction Rooms at 153-157 London Road, Derby DE1 2SY 2 minutes walk from Derby Train Station. 10.00am for 10.30am. Please let the organiser Greg Spring know if you are

Today we learnt the sad news that Gavin Fryer, RDP, FRPSL has died. Our condolences to his family.

Last nights ZOOM meeting (6th February) proved to be very informative. 19 members were in attendance. Malcolm Coe began by giving a detailed account of the use of Talismanic numbers on Sudanese Postage at the beginning of the 20thcentury. They were written on the front to encourage all concerned to speed them to their destination

Hello, I thought it would be a good idea to introduce myself to you as the new Honorary Secretary of the Postal History Society, following the very sad and sudden passing of my predecessor Steve Ellis FRPSL in November 2023. Steve was a very hard working secretary for the Society and I’m sure he will