''The London Philatelist'' was first published in January 1892
by

David Beech David Richard Beech MBE (born 1954) was the curator of the British Library Philatelic Collections from 1983–2013. He is a fellow and past-president of the Royal Philatelic Society London (RPSL). In 2013, it was announced that Beech was to r ...

, Barnet & District Philatelic Society, 2013. Retrieved 2 May 2013. and is the

magazine A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combinatio ...

of the

Royal Philatelic Society London The Royal Philatelic Society London (RPSL) is the oldest philatelic society in the world. It was founded on 10 April 1869 as ''The Philatelic Society, London''. The society runs a postal museum, the Spear Museum of Philatelic History, at its he ...

History

From its beginning until 1943 it was published monthly. Since 1991 it has been published ten times annually. An article about its history in the December 2014 issue (the 1303rd) contains a chart with the date and whole number of all its issues. Its contents include coverage of worldwide

philatelic Philately (; ) is the study of postage stamps and postal history. It also refers to the collection and appreciation of stamps and other philatelic products. Philately involves more than just stamp collecting or the study of postage; it is possi ...

and

postal history Postal history is the study of postal systems and how they operate and, or, the study of the use of postage stamps and covers and associated postal artifacts illustrating historical episodes in the development of postal systems. The term is att ...

topics. A substantial part of the magazine is composed of original work, usually by members who may have given a display on their topic at the society meetings.

Editors

*Jan 1892 - Feb 1917 M.P. Castle *Apr 1917 - May 1937 Thomas Hall *Jul 1937 - Jan 1940 Col. Henry Wood *Feb 1940 - Jun 1946 Rev. Alwin Corder Larmour *Jul 1946 - Dec 1954 H.R. Holmes *Jan 1955 - Dec 1974 Arnold Strange *Jan 1975 - Dec 1982

Stuart Rossiter Percival Stuart Bryce Rossiter (25 February 1923 – 1982) was a renowned British philatelist and postal historian who wrote extensively about British postal history and postage stamps of British colonies in Africa and was involved in numerous p ...

*May 1983 - Jun 2001 George E. Barker"Roll of Distinguished Philatelists 2009" in ''The London Philatelist'', Vol. 118, No. 1365, May 2009, p. 146. *Jul 2001 - Dec 2014 Frank Walton *Jan 2015 - Jun 2017 Steve Jarvis *Jul 2017 - Dec 2019 Seija-Riitta Laakso *Jan 2020 - Anthony Bard

References

External links

''The London Philatelist''

Archive of ''The London Philatelist'' from 1892 to 1920
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