The Royal Philatelic Society London, the oldest philatelic society in the world, was established in 1869 as The Philatelic Society, London.

The Society's Aims

The principal objects of the Society are:

1. To promote, encourage and contribute to the advancement of the science and practice of philately.

2. To inform members of the Society on all matters affecting any of its objects by meetings, discussions, displays, lectures, correspondence or otherwise; to assist and carry out philatelic research, and to print, publish and issue such papers, periodicals, books, circulars or other literary matters in support of these objects.

3. To hold, either alone or jointly with others, promote, or subscribe, or assist with international or other philatelic exhibitions in the UK or elsewhere, and to offer and award prizes, medals or other recognition in connection with such exhibitions or for any literary work connected with philately.

4. To establish and maintain a library and collections of stamps, designs, proofs, essays and other articles of interest relating to any of the objects of the Society.

Members' Area

Fellows and Members of the Royal Philatelic Society London who wish to obtain a username and password for the Members' Area should email secretary@rpsl.org.uk asking for these.

You can now pay for publications securely online either with a PayPal account or by using PayPal's secure credit card authorisation service. Members should use the order form in the Members' area for discounts on some titles.

Audio recordings of 5pm Meetings

Recently added into the members area of the RPSL website is the audio recording of Dr. Geoffrey-Eibl Kaye's Paper, read before the Society on 13 November 2009. The password for the members' area can be obtained from the e-mail address secretary@rpsl.org.uk

If you have any technical questions with this download please use the e-mail address as listed above. Broadband connection is necessary for the download. This facility is in its very early stages, however we do hope to make further audio recordings of 5pm meetings available to our membership when and where possible. We hope that this service is of benefit to members who cannot attend those meetings, and we would welcome any comments or feedback.

Paul Moorcroft
Administrative Manager

Note: audio recordings of the papers given by Alan Griffiths, Colin Tabeart, Harvey Mirsky and our President, John Sacher, have also been added to the members' area.

Handouts

We have an archive of handouts from our meetings, held about every two weeks from September to June at the Society. A handout is a descriptive paper which accompanies a display, often with extensive use of illustrative material. You can view our archive here then select the year which interests you in the right hand column.

Latest Handouts

Malaya Study Group
A display to the Royal Philatelic Society, London by the Malaya Study Group to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of their founding

15 October 2009

Sudan: The Camel Postman Issues 1897-1991
By Richard Stock

1 October 2009

The Royal Philatelic Collection - A Great Britain Selection
By Michael Sefi, FRPSL Keeper of the Royal Philatelic Collection
and Ian Greig, FRPSL
Assistant to the Keeper

17 September 2009

Latest Publication

The Postage Stamps of New Zealand 1855 - 1873
The Chalon Head Issues

By Robert P. Odenweller

Published jointly with the Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand.

Further details and an order form available to download.