The Revenue Society

The society is also noted for the particularly high quality of its journal which has published many articles on subjects about which little or nothing has previously been written.

[1] Founder members included Robson Lowe, Gary Ryan, Clive Akerman and Ronald Butler.

The society is particularly noted for the quarterly The Revenue Journal (originally The Revenue Journal of Great Britain) under the long-time editorship of Clive Akerman which has won several awards at philatelic shows including Vermeil medals at España 06 and China 09.

The society awards The Revenue Society Research Medal for research into revenue stamps and a Competition Medal.

The Research Medal was first awarded in 2007 and the winner was Peter Mansfield for research into British and Northern Ireland key type revenue stamps.

A South African revenue stamp . The sort of stamp collected by members of the Revenue Society.