1st Class – James I (1406–1437), James II (1437–1460), James III (1460–1488); 62p – James IV (1488–1513), James V (1513–1542);81p – Mary (1542–1567), James VI (1567–1625)
Atelier Works
2010-04-13
Mammals (Action for Species 4)
Humpback whale, wildcat, brown long-eared bat, polecat, sperm whale, water vole, greater horseshoe bat, otter, dormouse, hedgehog
1st Class – LMS Coronation Class, BR Class 9F; 67p – GWR King Class, LNER Class A1; 97p – LMS NCC Class WT, SR King Arthur Class
Delaney Design Consultants
2010-09-16
Medical Breakthroughs
1st Class – Heart-regulating beta-blockers synthesised by Sir James Black, 1962; 58p – Antibiotic properties of penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming, 1928; 60p – Total hip replacement operation pioneered by Sir John Charnley, 1962; 67p – Artificial lens implant surgery pioneered by Sir Harold Ridley, 1949; 88p – Malaria parasite transmitted by mosquitoes proved by Sir Ronald Ross, 1897; 97p – Computed tomography scanner invented by Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, 1971
1st Class – Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet and Christopher Robin; 58p – Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet; 60p – Winnie-the-Pooh and Rabbit; 67p – Winnie-the-Pooh and Eeyore; 88p – Winnie-the-Pooh and friends; 97p – Winnie-the-Pooh and Tigger.[3]
Magpie Studio
2010-11-02
Christmas 2010
2nd Class – Wallace and Gromit carol singing; 1st Class – Gromit posting Christmas cards; 2nd Class Large – Wallace and Gromit carol singing; 1st Class Large – Gromit posting Christmas cards; 60p – Wallace dressing the Christmas tree; 97p – Gromit with Christmas pudding; £1.46 – Gromit's Christmas pullover.[4]
1st Class – Hamlet; 66p – The Tempest; 68p – Henry VI; 76p – King Lear; £1.00 – A Midsummer Night's Dream; £1.10p – Romeo and Juliet Miniature sheet: 1st Class – Royal Shakespeare Theatre; 68p – Swan Theatre; 76p – The Courtyard Theatre; £1.00 – The Other Place
Miniature sheet which features Prince William's coat of arms. 1st Class and £1.10
456
2011-05-05
Morris & Co
2 X 1st: Cray – William Morris, Cherries – Philip Webb, 76p X 2: Seaweed – John Henry Dearle, Peony – Kate Faulkner, £1.10 X 2: Acanthus – William Morris and William De Morgan, The Merchant's Daughter – Edward Burne-Jones
The House of Hanover: 1st Class X 2: George I (1714–1727), George II (1727–1760); 76p X 2: George III (1760–1820), George IV (1820–1830); £1.10 X 2: William IV (1830–1837), Victoria (1837–1901).
The Age of Hanoverians: 1st: Robert Walpole – 1721 First Prime Minister; 68p: Robert Adam – 1763 Kedleston Hall; 76p: Penny Black – 1840 Uniform Postage; £1.00: Queen Victoria 1897 Diamond Jubilee.
2nd Class X 1: Joseph visited by the Angel; 1st Class X 1: Madonna and Child; 2nd Large X 1: Joseph visited by the Angel; 1st Large X 1: Madonna and Child; 68p X 1: Baby Jesus in the manger; £1.10 X 1: Shepherds visited by the Angel; £1.65 X 1: Wise men and star.
2012
Issue number
Issue date
Issue title
Details of stamps in issue
Designer(s)
2012
92
2012.01.05
London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games Definitives
4 Stamps: 2 X 1st Class: Olympic Definitive, Paralympic Definitive, 2 X Worldwide: Olympic Definitive, Paralympic Definitive
4 Stamps: 1st Class: The BFG and Sophie, 68p: The BFG and Sophie Wake the Giants, 76p: Sophie on the Queen's Window-Sill, £1.00: The BFG and Sophie at the Writing Desk.[7]
Magpie Studio
LS80
2012.01.20
Year of the Dragon Smiler Sheet
20 Stamps: 1st Class X 20: A collection of different designs
1st Class: Edward VII (1901–1910), 68p: George V (1910–1936), 76p: Edward VIII (1936), £1.00, George VI (1936–1952), £1.10, Elizabeth II (1952–2022), 1st Class: Scott Expedition 1912, 68p: Second World War 1929–1945, 76p: Football Champions 1966, £1.00: Channel Tunnel
Atelier Works
2012.02.06
Diamond Jubilee definitive
1st Class X 6: Dorothy Wilding definitive, Robert Austin banknote portrait, Harry Eccleston banknote portrait, Mary Gillick coinage portrait, Arnold Machin coinage portrait, Diamond Jubilee Machin
1st Class X 2: Golden Jubilee - 2002, Trooping the Colour - 1967; 77p X 2: The Royal Welsh - 2007, First Christmas TV Broadcast - 1957; 87p X 2: Silver Jubilee Walkabout -1977, Garter Ceremony - 1997;
£1.28 X 2: United Nations Address - 2012, Commonwealth Games - 1982;
The stamps were issued illustrated the Metropolitan Railway (2nd Class), the deep-tube tunnels (2nd Class), Edwardian commuters (1st Class), Boston Manor station (1st Class), 1938 tube stock (£1.28) and Canary Wharf station (£1.28). A miniature sheet reproduced classic London Underground posters.[13]
A three-issue Post & Go series with first set showing pond life, the second life in lakes and the third river creatures. The Ponds set featured three common species, the three-spined stickleback, emperor dragonfly and smooth newt, and three endangered species: lesser silver water beetle, fairy shrimp and glutinous snail. The stamps were designed by Kate Stephens and the illustrations were by Chris Wormell.[16]
Her Majesty the Queen (six decades of royal portraits)
2nd Class: Portrait by Terence Cuneo 1953, 1st Class: Portrait by Nicky Philipps 2013, 78p: Portrait by Andrew Festing 1999, 88p: Portrait by Pietro Annigoni 1955, £1.28: Portrait by Sergei Pavlenko 2000, £1.88: Portrait by Richard Stone 1992*[18]
Benhem
486
2013-06-18
Classic Locomotives of Northern Ireland
1st Class: UTA W Class No. 103, 78p: UTA SG3 Class No. 35, 88p: Peckett No. 2, £1.28: CDRJC Class 5 No. 4
2nd Class: Madonna and Child, 2nd Class Large: Madonna and Child, 1st Class: Virgin and Child, 1st Class Large: Virgin and Child, 88p: Praying to the Virgin, £1.28: La Vierge au Lys, £1.88: Theotokos, Mother of God.
6 Stamps: 1st Class: Riding for the Disabled Association, Ceremonial horses of the Kings Troop, 88p: Dray Horses pulling a dray from Hook Norton Brewery, Royal Mews Carriage Horses, £1.28: pair of police horses; a forestry horse.
Michael Denny and Harold Battern
495
2014-02-20
Classic Locomotives of Wales
4 Stamps: 1st Class: – LMS No. 7720 leaves the Britannia Bridge with a Bangor-to-Holyhead local train c. 1930, 78p: Hunslet No. 589 Blanche rounds the curve off 'The Cob' passing Pen Cob Halt on the Ffestiniog Railway 1964, 88p: W&LLR No. 822 The Earl waits on Union Street Welshpool while a car is moved from the line, £1.28: BR No. 5652 heads a coal train at Cwmbargoed Merthyr Tydfil 1959
1st class stamps: Poppy, 'For the Fallen', Private William Cecil Tickle, £1.47 stamps: A Star Shell, The Response, Newcastle (memorial), Princess Mary's Gift Fund Box[21][22]
10 stamps marking the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s novel: The White Rabbit, Drink Me, The Cheshire Cat, The Queen of Hearts, Alice's Evidence, Down the Rabbit Hole, The White Rabbit's House, A Mad Tea Party, The Game of Croquet, A Pack of Cards.[23]
Godfrey Design
M23
2015.01.20
Smilers Refresh 2015
1st Class: Well Done, 1st Class: Mum, 1st Class: New Baby, 1st Class: Wedding, 1st Class: Happy Birthday, 1st Class: Dad, 1st Class: Grandparent and 1st Class: Love.
Jenny Bowers
507
2015.02.19
Inventive Britain
Colossus, Cats-eyes, Stainless Steel, Carbon Fibre, DNA Sequencing, i-limb, World Wide Web and Fibre Optics.
1st Class: Waterloo – The defence of Hougoumont, 1st Class: Waterloo – The Scots Greys during the charge of the Union Brigade, £1.00: Waterloo – The French cavalry's assault on Allied defensive squares, £1.00: Waterloo – The defence of La Haye Sainte by the King's German Legion, £1.52: Waterloo – The capture of Plancenoit by the Prussians, £1.52: Waterloo – The French Imperial Guard's final assault and a Miniature Sheet: £1.33: 92nd Gordon Highlanders, 1st Class: Light Infantry, King's German Legion, 1st Class: Prussian Infantryman and £1.33: French Imperial Guard Grenadier.
1st Class: Pilots scramble to their Hurricanes, 1st Class: Supermarine Spitfires on patrol, 1st Class: Armourer replaces ammunition boxes, £1.33: Spotters of the Auxiliary Territorial Service, £1.33: Operations Room at Bentley Priory and £1.33: Pilots of 32 Squadron await orders.
The Team
515
2015.08.18
Bees
2nd Class: scabious bee, 1st Class: great yellow bumblebee, £1.00: northern colletes bee, £1.33: bilberry bumblebee, £1.52: large mason bee and £2.25: potter flower bee.
Anna Ekelund
516
2015.09.09
HM Queen Elizabeth II – Long To Reign Over Us
1st Class: William Wyon's City Medal, 1st Class: Dorothy Wilding's Portrait, 1st Class: Machin Definitive, £1.52: The Badge of the House of Windsor and £1.52: The Queen's Personal Flag.
2nd Class & 2nd Large: The Journey to Bethlehem, 1st Class & 1st Large: The Nativity, £1.00: The Animals of the Nativity, £1.33: The Shepherds, £1.52: The Three Wise Men; and £2.25: The Annunciation.
8 stamps – 1st Class: Entering the Antarctic Ice, 1st Class: Endurance frozen in pack ice, £1.00: Striving to free Endurance, £1.00: Trapped in a pressure trap, £1.33: Patience Camp, £1.33: Safe arrival at Elephant Island, £1.52: Setting out for South Georgia and £1.52: Rescue of Endurance crew.[30]
Robert Maude & Sarah Davies
522
2016.02.17
Royal Mail 500
6 stamps – 1st Class: Sir Brian Tuke, Master of the Posts, 1st Class: A Packet Ship, 1st Class: A Penfold Pillar Box, £1.52: River Post, £1.52: Mail Coach and £1.52: Medway Mail Centre.[31]
6 stamps – 1st Class: HM The Queen with her father 1930, HM The Queen attends the State Opening of Parliament 2012, HM The Queen with Princess Anne and Prince Charles 1952, £1.52: HM The Queen Visits New Zealand 1977, HM The Queen with the Duke of Edinburgh 1957, HM The Queen with Nelson Mandela 1996
6 stamps – 1st Class: Battlefield Poppy, To My Brother Vera Britain, Munitions Worker Lottie Meade, £1.52: Travoys Arriving With Wounded... by Stanley Spencer, Thiepval Memorial Somme France, Captain AC Green's Battle of Jutland Medal.
4 stamps – £1.00: The Post Office Riffles, £1.33: Delivering the Mail on the Home Front, £1.00: Home Depot at Regent's Park London, £1.33: Writing a Letter From the Western Front
6 stamps presented in three se-tenant strips of two stamps: 1st Class X 2: The Beginning, £1.05 X 2: The Spread, and £1.52 X 2: The end of the Fire.[37]
1st Class X 3: Shattered Poppy, John Ross; Dead Man's Dump, Isaac Rosenberg; Nurses Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm; £1.57 X 3: Dry Docked for Scaling and Painting, Edward Wadsworth; Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium; Private Lemuel Thomas Rees' Life Saving Bible.
Hat-Trick Design
544
2017.07.31
The First World War – 1917 Prestige Stamp Book
1st Class X 8: Features the stamp pane with the Poppy stamp from the 2010 Smilers® Miniature Sheet.
6 X 1st class: First UK aerial mail (1911), Military mail flight (1919), International airmail (1933), Domestic airmail (1934), Flying boat airmail (1937), Flying boat airmail (1937), Datapost services (1980s)
2nd Class X 2: Adventures from history (Nelson, Queen Elizabeth I, Florence Nightingale), Well-loved tales (The Gingerbread Boy, Cinderella, The Elves and the Shoemaker), 1st Class X 2: Key words reading scheme (1b Look at this, 2a We have fun, 4a Things We do), Early tales and rhymes (Smoke and Fluff, Tootles the Taxi, Piggly Plays Truant), £1.05 X 2: Hobbies and How it Works (Things to Make, Tricks and Magic, The Telephone), People at Work (The Postman, The Fireman, The Nurse), £1.33 X 2: Nature and Conservation (British Wild Flowers, Wild Life in Britain, Garden Flowers), Achievements (Ships, the Motor Car, Metals)
1st Class X 8: Maz Kanata, Chewbacca, Supreme Leader Snoke, Porg, BB-8, R2-D2, C-3PO and K-2SO
Malcolm Tween
548
2017.11.07
Christmas 2017
2nd class + 2nd class large: Arwen Wilson (9), Family of Snowpeople, 1st class + 1st class large: Ted Lewis-Clark (10) Father Christmas in the sky,
2nd class, 2nd class large, 1st class, 1st class large, £1.17, £1.40, £1.57, £2.27: Madonna & Child Designs
Royal Mail Group
xxx
2017.12.15
Lunar New Year of the Dog
First class X 1
Hat-Trick Design
549
2017.12.20
The Royal Wedding – Platinum Anniversary
The six-stamp Stamp Sheet features three pairs of stamps with images from 1947. Two stamps mark the Royal Engagement, two the Royal Wedding and two the Royal Honeymoon.
Mytton Williams
2018
Issue number
Issue date
Issue title
Details of stamps in issue
Designer(s)
2018
551
2018.01.23
Game of Thrones
10 X 1st Class: Sansa Stark, Jon Snow, Eddard Stark, Olenna Tyrell, Tywin Lannister, Tyrion Lannister, Cersei Lannister, Arya Stark, Jaime Lannister, and Daenerys Targaryen.
GBH
P&G28
2018.01.23
Post and Go – Game of Thrones
1 X 1st Class: Fire; 1 X 2nd Class: Ice.
GBH
552
2018.02.15
Votes for Women
2nd X 2: Lone Suffragette in Whitehall (c. 1908), The Great Pilgrimage of Suffragists (1913); 1st X 2: Suffragette Leaders at Earl's Court (1908), Women's Freedom League Poster Parade (c.1907); £1.40 X 2: Welsh Suffragettes – Coronation Procession (1911), Leigh and New Released from Prison (1908); £1.57 X 2: Sophia Duleep Singh sells the Suffragette (1913), Suffragette Prisoner's Pageant (1911)
2 X 1st Class: Summer Exhibition by Grayson Perry RA, Queen of the Sky by Fiona Rae RA; 2 X £1.25: St Kilda – The Great Sea Stacs by Norman Ackroyd RA, Inverleith Allotments and Edinburgh Castleby Barbara Rae RA;2 X £1.55: Queuing at the RA by Yinka Shonibare RA, Saying Goodbye by Tracey Emin RA.
2nd Class X 2: Sergeant Wilson "Do you think that is wise sir?", Private Pike "I'll tell Mum!"; 1st Class X 2: Captain Mainwaring "You stupid boy!", Lance Corporal Jones "Don't panic! Don't panic!"; £1.45 X 2: Private Walker "It won't cost you much...", Private Frazer "We’re doomed. Doomed!"; £1.55 X 2: Private Godfrey "Do you think I might be excused?", Chief Warden Hodges "Put that light out!"
2nd Class X 2: Sir Joseph Banks, Chief Mourner of Tahiti; 1st Class X 2: Captain James Cook, drawings of the observations of the transit of Venus (1769); £1.45 X 2: Clianthus puniceus (scarlet clianthus), Volatinia jacarina (blue-black grassquit);
Miniature Sheet: 1st Class X 2: Charting a new course – New Zealand and Australia, life on Raiatea – boathouse and canoes; £1.45 X 2: mapping New Zealand – a Maori clifftop fort, disaster avoided – repairs on the Endeavour River.
1st Class X 2: The Dance of Death (1967), King Lear (2016); £1.25 X 2: Hamlet (1975), Hedda Gabler (1970); £1.45 X 2: No Man's Land (1975), Carmen Jones (1991); £1.55 X 2: Romeo and Juliet (1960), Henry V (1955).
Hat-Trick Design
xxx
2018.09.12
Postal Heritage: Mail by Bike
1st Class X 6: Pentacycle (1882), Motorcycle and trailer (1902), tricycle and basket (1920), bicycle (1949), motorcycle (1965), quad bike (2002)
1st Class X 3: 100 Poppies – Z and B Baran, Anthem for Doomed Youth – W Owen, Second Lieutenant Walter Tull; £1.55 X 3: We Are making A New World – P Nash, The Grave of the Unknown Warrior – Westminster Abbey – London, Lieutenant Francis Hopgood's Goggles
Hat-trick Design
562
2018.10.16
Harry Potter
1st Class X 10: Hermione Granger, Hogwarts Express, Harry Potter, Flying Ford Anglia, Ron Weasley, Hagrid's motorbike, Ginny Weasley, Triwizard Cup, Neville Longbottom, Knight Bus;
2nd class, 2nd class large, 1st class, 1st class large, £1.25, £1.45, £1.55, £2.25 (all designs feature red pillar boxes, one per monarch, by Andrew Davidson)
Royal Mail Group Ltd
564
2018.11.14
Prince of Wales 70th Birthday
1st class x 3 designs: Charles in a blue jacket, Charles and Camilla, Charles with two sons (in uniform), £1.55 x 3 designs: Charles with two sons (polo tops), Charles in grey jacket, Charles on walkabout
1st class x 12 designs: The skull sectioned, a sprig of guelder-rose, Studies of cats, a star-of-Bethlehem and other plants, the anatomy of the shoulder and foot, the head of Leda, the head of a bearded man, the skeleton, the head of St. Philip, a woman in a landscape, a design for an equestrian monument, the fall of light on a face.[41]
Extra comic story: £1.45 x 1 designs: Captain Britain. 1st class x 3 designs: Thanos, Thor, Doctor Strange and Iron Man. Hulk and Iron Man. £1.25 x 1 designs: Together.[42]
Miniature Sheet: 4 Harrier GR.3 stamps: 1st Class x 2: Short Take-off, Conventional Flight, £1.55 x 2 designs: Transition to Landing, Vertical Landing.[44]
Common Curiosity. Sheet: Turner Duckworth
571
2019.05.24
Queen Victoria Bicentenary
6 stamps: 1st Class x 2: Queen in her later years, Victoria and Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, £1.35 x 2: Queen Victoria with servant John Brown, Victoria wearing her Robes of State, £1.60 x 2: Marriage of Victoria and Albert, Princess Victoria aged eleven.[45]
6 stamps: 1st Class x 2: British soldiers are briefed before embarkation, HMS Warspite, £1.35 x 2: Paratroopers synchronising watches, soldiers wade ashore on Juno, £1.60 x 2: An American light bomber provides air support, British troops take cover as they advance inland.[46]
Miniature sheet of 4 Stamps: 1st Class X 2: Madison Square Garden (2018), Dodger Stadium (1975); £1.55 X 2: Hammersmith Odeon (1973), Buckingham Palace (2012).[51]
6 Stamps: 1st Class X 3: Scrambled Snake, Gruffalo Crumble, All was quiet in the deep dark wood; £1.60 X 3: A mouse took a stroll, Roasted Fox, Owl ice cream?;
Miniature sheet of 4 stamps: 1st Class X 2: Owl, Mouse; £1.60 X 2: Snake, Fox.[53]
^Queen Victoria: Royal Mail release stamps to celebrate 200th anniversary of her birth | Six special stamps are being released by Royal Mail to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Queen Victoria on 24 May 1819.
^D-Day: Royal Mail stamps mark 75th anniversary | 02 June 2019 UK
