YPA Speaker List - please note that email addresses have an added space for security
Derek Baron Leeds Tel: 01943465236 Email: derek n.baron@gmail.com
Expenses by arrangement
1. Postal History of Olomouc - Austrian Period. Full display including PowerPoint introduction
2. Postal History of Olomouc - Occupation and Liberation Full display including PowerPoint introduction
Peter Chadwick Harrogate/Royal Tel: 01642 781274 Email: pvchadwick @gmail.com
Expenses: No charge within 60 miles of Eaglescliffe
1. Oddities in GB Postal History before 1840 Full display
2. Post Routes and Post Offices of Scotland before 1770 Full display
3. Mulready Caricatures Full display
4. East Prussia and East Silesia Full display
David Druett Harrogate Telephone:
Brian Hague Harrogate/York Telephone: 07944 076491 Email: brian.hague 26@gmail.com
Basic travel expenses appreciated.
1. Faroe Islands. Stamps, postal history and picture postcards. Full display
2. A Selection of Danish "Open Sandwiches). A pick and mix of various Danish topics. Mainly postal history but also some topics that include significant non-philatelic material. Full display
3. Edwardian Era Historical Pageants. A story told through contemporary picture postcards and ephemera. Full display
James Hartley Sheffield Telephone Email: james rhartley@btinternet.com
Yorkshire by arrangement
1. British Guiana - Postal History
2. British Guiana - Stationery: Embossed, Registered, Post Cards, Newspaper Wrappers and Airmail
3. British Guiana - Stamps
4. Australia 1913 to 1970: Stamps, First Day Covers and other items
Richard A Hindle Sheffield Telephone: 0114 258 5988 Email: richard.hindle @hotmail.co.uk
Expenses by arrangement
1. Hubert Wilkins, An Extraordinary Life. A full biography of Hubert Wilkins (Open Philately) Full display
2. Ernest Shackleton’s Polar Expeditions. Shackleton’s expeditions, 1901-04, 1907-09,1914-16, 1921-22. Full display
3. Scott & Shackleton and the Race for the Pole. Scott, Shackleton, Shirase and Amundsen’s attempts and successes at reaching the South Pole. Full display
4. Richard Byrd’s First Antarctic Expedition. The story of his Arctic Flights and his successful flight to the South Pole. Zoom
5. Amundsen’s Expedition’s after 1912. After reaching the South Pole, Amundsen made three arctic expeditions to reach the
North Pole by air. He died going to rescue Umberto Nobile, whose airship crashed in the Arctic. Full display
6. Other Polar Explorers. There are many other British, French, Russian, etc. polar explorers who are commemorated philatelically.
7. Amundsen’s Maud Expedition 1918-25. The story of Amundsen’s Maud Expedition including the subscription cards and the North
Star Air Post.
8. Hubert Wilkins Naturalist to the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition, 1921-22. Wilkins was employed as naturalist, but the official photographer left the expedition due to seasickness, so Wilkins also became the official photographer. Zoom
9. Sheffield Scout Post. Sheffield Scouts provided the first Charity Christmas Card delivery service in the
country. Full display
Mike Lewis York PS Telephone 07742 153669 Email: mikeval9b@ya hoo.co.uk
1.Killed in Action: Story of a WWII soldier told through his letters home and what followed after. Full Display
2. GB QV Stamps and Postal History line engraved and Surface printed. Full Display
3. GB The 4 Kings Stamps and Postal History. Full Display
4. Darlington Postal History. Full Display
5. The Stockton & Darlington Railway and the early Railways; Postal History & Ephemera. Full Display
6: Aspects of GB: Display showing the great variety of GB philatelic material available to enhance a collection. Full Display
7. Philatelic Terms illustrated. Zoom (1 hour)
8. GB Edward VIII. Zoom (40 minutes)
9. GB Illustrated and Advertising Envelopes. Full Display
Daphne McMillan FRPSL Hull Stamp & Postcard Club Telephone: 01482 840836 Email: mc millandaphne@yahoo.co.uk
By arrangement
1. The Family, Life and Reign of King George VI. A portrait of the King's life including letters, postcards and ephemera. Full Display
2. Great Britain King George VI stamps and postal stationery. A detailed look at the varieties to be found on the issued
stamps, plus a range of Post Office and Stamped to Order postal stationery. Full Display
3. Varieties on the Great Britain King George VI Commemorative stamps. Zoom
4. Great Britain King George VI Domestic and Foreign Rates. Full Display
(A mixed display combining rates with stamps and postal stationery is possible, i.e.2 and 4.)
5. World War II Allied Mail including Illustrated Airgraphs. Full Display
includes forces postal stationery, mail rejected by the censors and undelivered mail, and if space permits, some illustrated air letters. Can be done with a PowerPoint introduction to Airgraphs with the material in the frames for one half.
6. World War II Illustrated Airgraphs. Zoom
An introduction to the Airgraph service showing civilian and military printed designs and hand-drawn items.
7. French Antarctic Territory. Full Display
Mainly the stamps, but including covers with ship cachets, research initiatives etc.
8. Royalty through Postcards. Full Display
British and European Royalty, particularly during the early 20th Century
Tony Plumbe Leeds PS Email: ajplumbe @hotmail.com
Expenses: Contribution please if return distance over 100 miles from home
In winter GMT period prefer not to drive over 40 miles late at night.
1. Biafra Postal History & Stamps. Full evening or 2 Zoom
2. British Central Africa/Nyasaland, Stamps & Postal History, 1857-1953. Full display 3. Lagos & Fernando Po. Half display
4. Malawi artwork and proofs. Half display
5. Malawi varieties. Half display
6. Niger Coast Postal History & Stamps. Full display
7. Nigeria KGV & KGVI. Half display
8. Nigerian artwork. Full/half evening or 30min. Zoom
9. Nigeria censored mail alone or cacheted surface, air & express mail. Full display
10. Nigerian UN ‘Peace Keeping’ Forces. Half display
11. Northern Nigeria. Half display
12. Nyasaland Field Force (WW1). Half display
13. Nyasaland airmails. Full display
14. Nyasaland censors. Short half display
15. Southern Nigeria Postal History, Stamps, Postcards & TPOs. Full dsiplay
Neil Ritchie Sheffield PS Email: neilritchie@net scape.net
Travel & Expenses: By arrangement.
1. Russia - The Great War, Revolution and Beyond Full display
2. Canadian Expeditionary Force: - 1914-1919 Full display
3. Latvia 1918-1945 Full display
4. Russia World War 1 Aftermath Full display
5. A variety of short/medium displays on topic subjects of Russia, Canada World War 1, Spanish Civil War Zoom
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