2026 Crawford Programme

This year the Crawford Festival  will take place on 16 and 17 June 2026 at 15 Abchurch Lane, London EC4N 7BW.  This year’s event is kindly sponsored by Stanley Gibbons and the theme will be Catalogues.

Programme Download

The full programme and guide will be available to download in the middle of May.

Tuesday 16 June

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee & Registration
10:45 – 10:50 Welcome from James Podger, Chairman of the RPSL Collections Committee
10:50 – 11:15 David Beech, Stamp Catalogues: Origins, Importance and Context
11:15 – 12:15 Vincent Schouberechts, Early Belgian Philatelic Literature
12:15 – 13:15 Eduardo Escalada-Goicoechea, Early Postage Stamp Catalogues – The Incunabula Period
13:15 – 14:15 Lunch (Buffet lunch served in Dr Paul Ramsey Room)
14:15 – 15:15 Hugh Jefferies, ‘The Stanley Gibbons Catalogue, past present and future’
15:15 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:30 Geoff Kellow, The Australian Commonwealth Specialists’ Catalogue, 1926 – 2026
16:30 – 16:45 Final thoughts for the day…

Drinks and nibbles sponsored by The Rhodesian Study Circle.   

Wednesday 17 June

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee & Registration
10:45 – 12:15 Jay Bigalke, The Future of Philatelic Catalogues, Print, Digital and What Comes Next
12:15 – 13:00 Kjell Johansen, Catalogue of the Postage Stamps of Norway, Norgeskatalogen
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch (Buffet lunch served in Dr Paul Ramsey Room)
14:00 – 15:00 John Barefoot, Revenue Catalogues
15:00 – 15:15 Coffee Break
15:15 – 16:15 Panel Discussion
16:15 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:00 Announcement of the winner and presentation of The Crawford Medal
17:00 – 18:00 Drinks & Nibbles

Previous Crawford Festivals

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Please be aware that for the 2025 Crawford Festival, the 6 raw, unedited video recordings may typically begin with no audio, and potentially slightly out-of-focus video, when people were busy preparing for a presentation, until the microphones were switched on and the cameras were focussed.

The Crawford Medal