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BTA display at Autumn Stampex 2020
As things stand, Autumn Stampex is still going ahead, dates are 30 September to 03 October. Click here for updates. The BTA will be the lead organisation for displays. Thank you to all those members who have already offered material to display. Of...
BTA Weekend 2021
We are pleased to announce that our next residential weekend will be held at the voco Oxford Spires Hotel from the 26 to 28 March 2021. The Programme is: Friday p.m. Arrival 18.15 Welcome, with Pimms and soft drinks ...
BTA Success at ECTP
The European Championship for Thematic Philately was held in Verona in November. BTA members who won their classes were Lawrence Fisher in the Championship Class with The Jewish Homeland: our struggle for survival, and Peter Weir in the Medicine and Sciences...
BTA Competitions 2019
There were twelve entries at the BTA annual cometitions held at the South of England Stamp Fair, hosted by the Association of Sussex Philatelic Societies. CHAMPIONSHIP CLASS: PREVIOUS WINNERS OF BTA COMPETITIONS Winner: Malcolm Gascoyne....
Franceska Rapkin Memorial Bowl winner 2019
At the BTA meeting at York Stamp Fair in July Chairman Barry Stagg presented Gary Cook with the Francesca Rapkin Memorial Bowl, awarded each year to the author of the article voted by the Committee to be best in Themescene the previous year. Gary won...
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BTA Meeting at York 20th July 2019
Displays kicked off with Mike Blackman showing umbrella and parasol manufacturers. Manufacturing of course provides the opportunity to collect much more than stamps, and Mike’s sheets included illustrated covers, postal calling cards, trade cards,...
Success for BTA members at Stockholm and China
Five BTA members exhibited at Stockholmia, held in Stockholm in May. Particular success was had by John Davies who was awarded Gold and Best in Open Class for A Jubilee Reminiscence and Lesley Marley who was awarded Large Gold for her Thematic exhibit The...
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BTA Meeting 13th April 2019
In the morning John Scott displayed The Evolution of the Postcard, stunning everyone with his breadth of knowledge and the material shown. The origins of postcards go back to the late eighteenth century. Although rarely used in Great Britain, on the Continent...
