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The London Philatelist
RPSL Collections’ Summer Seminar Series.
Nicola Davies, Head of Collections.
n the fifth session of the RPSL Collections Summer Seminar Series, friend of the Royal
Iand ICON book and paper conservator, Victoria Stevens ACR, presented ‘Conserving the Perkins
Bacon Archive.’
Victoria’s work with us over the last three years has been funded by grants from the
Association of Independent Museums, The Pilgrim’s Trust and the National Manuscript
Conservation Trust.
This presentation was an engaging account of the techniques used when restoring these
significant items from the RPSL collections. Victoria provided some background about the
construction of the items, how they would have originally been used and the insights they can
give into economic and social history. Just under half of the attendees to this seminar were
non-RPSL members and first time participants at our events; many have given very positive
feedback about the warm welcome they received from the Royal’s members.
In the final seminar of this series, Kim Stuckey FRPSL and Mike Roberts FRPSL presented
‘Research in the Falkland Islands Jane Cameron National Archives.’
Kim opened the presentation with some background about the formation of the National
Archives and emphasised the importance of archives to national identity as well as discussing
how putting archive information online has assisted philatelic research this remote (but very
popular in terms of collecting) territory. Mike presented a selection of case studies which
demonstrated how a wide range of sources can be used for philatelic studies and concluded
with a brief look at the Jane Cameron National Archives’ impressive website.
Once again, thank you to all presenters and participants during the series and to Mike
Hoffman and IT Chairman Mark Bailey FRPSL for their technical help.
If anyone has any suggestions for future topics or feedback they would like to offer, then
please contact me by email at daviesn@rpsl.org.uk
The presentations are all available to watch online, and can be viewed via our website: https://
www.rpsl.org.uk/Library/Events
September 2020 129 – 369
