Rhodesian Study Circle Annual Conference 2022

Conference 2022

Friday, 29 April, to Sunday, 1 May.

The Strawberry Bank
Main Road, Meriden, Coventry, West Midlands, CV7 7NF, UK

CONFERENCE IMAGES

PROGRAMME

Friday 29 April

9.00 – 12.00 Morning:

Silent display by Andrew Wilson (UK) – Fauna and Flora meet philately

12 noon: RSC Council Meeting

1.45pm – Welcome and Opening

2.00 – 3.00pm RSC AGM (in-person and on Zoom)

3.15 – 3.45pm – Derek Lambert (UK) – Lake Tanganyika WW1 – Before, during and after

4.00 – 4.30pm – Ian Menzies (Switzerland) – Images, Icons and Identity – philatelic representations of colonial Africa before and after the First World War

4.30 – 5.15pm – Dave Trathen (UK): Rhodesia’s UDI Propaganda Machine

7.00pm – Dinner

Saturday 30 April

9.00 – 10.00am  Adrian de Bourbon (UK) – The Revenue Stamps and Documents of Southern Rhodesia 1924-1953 

10.30 – 11.30am Narendhra Morar (UK) – Colour, Class and Caste: My family and other Indians

11.30am -12.30pm  Pat Flanagan (South Africa) – Zimbabwe stamp production since 1990

12.30pm – 1.30 Lunch:  plus Livermore, Single Sheet and Postcard competitions

2.00 – 2.30pm  Christopher Cooksey (UK) – Active Service Air Letters (Zoom Session)

2.30 – 3.30pm  Peter Hickman (UK) – Four frames of fine registered covers

3.45- 4.15pm   David Spivack (USA) – The Admiral listing changes in the Stanley Gibbons Catalogue

4.15 – 4.45pm  Andrew Wilson (UK) – a complementary selection of Admirals

4.45 – 5.15pm Huw Williams (UK) – Selected items from a forthcoming RSC auction. TBC

8.00pm Dinner

Sunday 1 May         

9.00 – 9.20am Geoff Brakspear (UK) – Further updates to the Encyclopaedias

9.20 – 9.40am Anita McCullough (UK) – Dissecting Memoir 32

9.40 – 10.00am Dirk Kind (UK) – The triple-ring cancellations

10.30  – 10.45am Sean Burke (Australia) – Celebrating recent publications

10.45 – 11.15am Peter Hickman (UK) – Choice and previously un-displayed postal history

11.15-11.35am Ian Shapiro (UK) – The challenge of auctioneering

11.35 – 12.00noon Andrew Wilson (UK) –  ‘Anecdotes’ from his Friday display

12.30 CONFERENCE ENDS

The RSC Annual Competitions

The 2020 and 2021 Livermore, Postcard and Single Sheet Virtual Competition entries and results, along with the 2022 entries may be viewed on the website.