What is the PPHSGB?
Why you should join the Polar Postal History Society of Great Britain!
If you collect stamps and covers from the polar regions, or are interested in polar exploration, vintage postcards or polar history then why not join our society, the oldest polar postal history society in the world. You will be most welcome!
The aims of the Society are to promote the general study of the Postal History of the Polar and Sub-Polar regions and to act as a medium whereby collectors of this material may correspond, exchange and acquire items for their collections and to obtain information about these areas.
The PPHSGB issues its journal Polar Post quarterly, A4 size, covering items of interest from the Arctic to the Antarctic.
Geographically this encompasses the British Antarctic Territory, Falkland Islands’ Dependencies, especially Base & Survey related items, Gough Island, Australian Antarctic (AAT) and French Antarctic (TAAF), Ross Dependency, South Georgia, Belgian/ Chinese/ Dutch/ German/ Italian/ Japanese/ Scandinavian/ South African/ South American/ Spanish/ USA bases/expeditions in the Antarctic, and many other countries maintaining a presence in the far South.
In the Northern Hemisphere, items from the arctic area of Northern Scandinavian countries (including Greenland), Russia, Alaska, and Canada fall within the Society’s area of interest.
Thematic topics covered include polar exploration, penguins, seals & whaling, polar shipping and aviation.
If you are interested in collecting Polar material you are invited to join The Polar Postal History Society of Great Britain. Please fill in the online application form, or download and and send it with your subscription to the Membership Secretary Robert McMillan. You will be assured of a warm welcome whether you are an experienced collector or a beginner!
Annual subscriptions fall due on 1 January. Those joining in the course of the year will receive all the issues of Polar Post for that year to date, then editions of the journal as they are published.The PPHSGB is a member of the Association of British Philatelic Societies (ABPS).
What are the Benefits of Membership of the Polar Postal History Society?
Membership Benefits
Once your membership has been confirmed,
you will receive:
- Polar Post, the Society’s journal published quarterly and posted out to you by mail.
- Access to an online polar library with every issue of Polar Post published since 1953 - over 250 issues!
- Access to classic polar books in the polar library
- Access to Full Colour versions of the current issue, and recently issued, Polar Post magazines
- Access to the largest polar postal history galleries on the Internet
- View some of the greatest polar postal history exhibits and learn how to exhibit yourself. Have your own exhibit featured online
- Information on your specialised polar collecting area
- Read the latest polar news discovered on the Internet
- Advance information on polar postal history auctions around the
world, with summaries of the results
- Participate in auctions from society members with the PPHSGB Auctions.
- Information on the most recently published polar publications, and details of where to order
- Links to everything polar around the Internet.
We find it for you and put it all
in one place, so you don’t have to search!
- Receive regular newsletters with the latest polar news
- Residential Weekends held every 2 to 3 years, typically in the
autumn and usually located in Cambridge, England