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The postage stamp is often recorded in storybook history as a great individual achievement of Sir Rowland Hill. Indeed, no-one can doubt Hill’s imp...

I don’t know a single serious collector who doesn’t put serious time and effort into finding new items for their collection. That’s such fun. The t...

Why do you buy autographs? For most buyers it’s probably a matter of hero worship. But it doesn’t hurt when they go up in price. And, investing and...

From 1847 to 1854 somewhere in Somerset House stood men patiently stamping repeating images onto sheets of paper. This was the short-lived experime...

Coin collectors need to have the instincts of a hunter. While a lot of the rarest coins are very known quantities, not all are. Coins are produced ...

The Chagos Islands are now back in the hands of..., well Mauritius, or they will be in 99 years time or so.  The islands are remote and extremely s...

Steve Jobs died 13 years ago this week. A private tragedy, but one that was mourned far outside his family. Jobs is one of those rare business figu...

With a major London exhibition on her life coming up Marilyn Monroe is in the news again. But she’s never out of it. And hasn’t been since she firs...

Surface printed stamps aren’t the first innovation in adhesive stamp history - perforation predates them - but they are the biggest printing innova...

Admiral Lord Nelson is one of the giants of British history. Literally towering in effigy over London’s greatest public space. And still lodged in ...

Britain was first. And that means British stamps have been identified first and foremost just by a royal portrait. No need for a name: no GB, no UK...

The story of the British Empire is like the story of most empires, a story of communications technology. The Egyptian Empire floated down the Nile,...