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The South African Collectors’ Society scheduled its Southern Africa Open Meeting for 7 and 8 November 2026 at Letchworth Hall Hotel in Hertfordshire, England. Its notice announced five displays for...

Royal Mail’s Christmas 2026 issue is scheduled for 3 November, with five self-adhesive stamps illustrated by British artist Rebecca Sutherland. The designs follow the Nativity, including the journe...

Royal Mail’s Remembrance issue comprises six First Class stamps featuring specially commissioned paintings by British artist Matthew Cook. Announced ahead of their 11 November 2026 issue, the stamp...

Warwick & Warwick’s report on its 7 October philatelic auction records £6,000 for a Malayan States collection in lot 103, twice its estimate. A Straits Settlements collection in lot 100 realised £3...

A presentation by Tom Droege exploring the use of artificial intelligence in philately has been made available as a recording. The Philatelic Traders’ Society announcement describes practical examp...

Stamp Active is seeking a volunteer to take over Kidstamps, its free postal club for children, when Ray Watkins stands down at the end of the year. The role involves preparing starter and follow-up...

Royal Mail and Duran Duran unveiled a new Special Stamps issue on 10 September 2026 celebrating the British band's visual and musical career. The programme consists of eight First Class stamps base...

Royal Mail has made public that Winnie-the-Pooh will be the subject of a major British stamp issue scheduled for 14 October 2026, exactly one hundred years after the publication of A. A. Milne’s or...

Royal Mail will issue ten special stamps celebrating household pets on 20 August 2026. The set contains five First Class and five Second Class designs, using characterful photography to present ani...

Royal Mail’s 2026 stamp calendar placed Stranger Things on 13 January and Concorde on 21 January at the start of the year, followed by subjects including Hornby Model Railways, Roses, The Lord of t...

Cavendish Philatelic Auctions announced that it would attend the York Stamp Fair on 16–17 January. Its stand offered fair visitors direct contact with a specialist auction business alongside the wi...

The Royal Philatelic Society London scheduled Chris King’s presentation “Denmark, the United Kingdom and Mail across the North Sea” for 29 January. The subject centres on the postal connections bet...

The Royal Philatelic Society London listed “The End of Empire 1930–1960” in its programme for 15 January. The subject places stamps and postal history within three decades of major constitutional c...

Philangles scheduled an online auction titled “63 Philatelic Gems” for 27 January. Rather than presenting a very large general catalogue, the sale was limited to 63 lots and promoted selected Great...

The York Stamp & Coin Fair took place at York Racecourse on 16–17 January. The long-running fair brought together dealers in stamps, postal history, coins, banknotes and medals, and included specia...

Royal Mail issued a Concorde special-stamp set on 21 January, making the supersonic airliner the subject of its second special issue of 2026. Concorde remains one of the most recognisable achieveme...

Royal Mail released its first special-stamp issue of 2026 on 13 January, devoted to the television series Stranger Things. The programme comprises 14 stamps: ten character or scene stamps and a min...