February issue
The legacy of Vladimir Lenin
As the progenitor of the Soviet Union, Lenin’s life and achievements have been lavishly celebrated on his country’s stamps, all of them issued after his death 100 years ago
Scottish datestamps 1893-1910
Combined datestamps with stampers’ numbers rather than post office numbers were a largely (but not entirely) Scottish phenomenon of the late Victorian and Edwardian era
Commonwealth Classics
The Cook Islands’ 1893 series portrayed a formidable Queen, but its wasn’t Queen Victoria
Early Elizabethans
Marking the 700th Anniversary of Simon de Montfort’s Parliament in 1965 meant breaking the mould
Soapbox
British stamps are no longer issued as a national service, but as a commercial exercise
Devil’s Advocate
We don’t send as many Christmas cards as we used to. Why are season’s greetings on the decline?
Strange But True
The stamps of an emerging nation implied it was already waning
