Previous Issues

May 2023

Inside this month’s packed GSM, stamps that have either featured or had a connection to the life of King Charles III over the 70 years…

April 2023

In the April issue of GSM, Douglas Muir RDP presents original research on the development of the Mackennal portrait and De La Rue frames used…

March 2023

Included in this month’s GSM, the background story and postal history of the deployment of troops to Vladivostok to support the White Russians in 1918…

February 2023

Inside this month’s issue of GSM, Christer Brunström FRPSL provides an overview of the story behind the stamps, cachets and postal history of a tiny…

January 2023

In the January issue of GSM, Nicholas Pertwee highlights the Japanese 50y. definitive stamp issues, which illustrate the 1400-year-old Maitreya Bodhisattva statue, and points out…

December 2022

Included in another eclectic mix of articles, George Rab champions the case for the controversial Star and Crescent overprints from Bahawalpur, which marks their 75th…

November 2022

Inside this month’s packed GSM, We look at the four new stamps to be released by Royal Mail in memory of Queen Elizabeth II and…

October 2022

In the October issue of GSM, authors of a new book on the postal history and first issues of Portuguese India, Luís and Eduardo Barreiros,…

September 2022

Included in this month’s GSM, Andrew Mortlock discusses the surface-printed stamps of Queensland with a focus on the 1d. value, which was produced in the…

August 2022

Inside this month’s issue of GSM, Robert Benninghoff examines the postal history left behind as the ‘phoney war’ between the IRA and National Army became…

July 2022

In the July issue of GSM, in the latest instalment in his thematic series looking at 20th-century Irish history, Robert Benninghoff focuses on the events…

June 2022

Included in another eclectic mix of articles, to commemorate The Queen’s Jubilee year, Majed Halawi shows how the political and economic climate of post-war Britain…