SRT Seminar and Lectures; The title and the speakers. Links to details of the seminar and lectures are included where these are available.
Browse our past annual memorial seminar and lectures
2025 Stuart Rossiter Trust Seminar: What is Postal History?
Introduction by Andy Gould video link
What is Postal History? by James Grimwood-Taylor video link & presentation slides
Must Postal History have a stop? by Douglas Muir video link
The Treatment of British Mail on the Continent by Theo Brauers video link and presentation slides
Is Postal History only Rates, Routes and Postmarks? by Nigel Gooch video link and presentation slides
An Open Goal by Birthe King video link and presentation slides
The Next Steps? by Wolfgang Maassen video link and presentation slides
2016 - Chris King RDP FRPSL: Challenges and Opportunities of Researching Online Napoleonic Denmark, a Case Study
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2015 - Ben Palmer FRPSL FRSPC APR: Theory vs Practice in Postal History
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2014 - David Beech FRPSL: The Future of Postal History
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2013 - Adrian Steel: The Future of the BPMA
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2012 - Hugh Feldman: Postal History, the thrill and Frustrations
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2011 - Colin Tabeart: The More the Rail the faster the mail
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2010 - Gavin Fryer FRPSL: Blind Man's Mail
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2009 - Tom Slemons: Researching local postal history with reference to Suffolk
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2008 - Patrick Maselis FRPSL: From the Azores to New Zealand
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2007 - Pat Grimwood-Taylor: Social Postal History
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2006 - Robert Johnson FRPSL: The other side of the counter (development of postal services around the world 1860-1970)
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2005 - Peter C Ford: Philatelic Publishing now and in the future
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2004 - Ian McQueen: The Philatelic Writer - Some personal experiences and opinions
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2001 - Denis Vandervelde: Disinfection & Quarantine
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2000 - David R Beech FRPSL: Philatelic Research at the British Library - A Guide to some of the Untapped Reserves
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1999 - Charles W Goodwyn RDP FRPSL: Royal Reform - As reflected in the Royal Philatelic Collection
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1998 - Ernst M Cohn: Amazing Wonder Stories from the Franco-Prussian War 1870-71
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1997 - Francois Piat Dewavrin: A Postal Historian's View of the Crimean War
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1996 - Dr Alan Huggins MBE RDP FRPSL: British Postal Stationery - its Original Development in Relation to Adhesive Stamps and Postal History
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1995 - Prof Barrie S Jay MA MD FRCS FRPSL: Early Forces Mail
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The Rossiter Newsletter – 75
This newsletter includes: A Report on the first Stuart Rossiter Trust Seminar “What is Postal History?” held on 24 September 2025. The Rossiter Newsletter No75 Download
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