Bodacious! It’s Pop Culture IV: The ’80s

Jersey 2020 1980s Popular Culture Punk Philatelist

The 1980s are the latest decade to feature in Jersey's pop culture series, with stamps that remind you to never look back

January 7, 2021 6

The Shape of… Who?

A world stamp collection is heading to auction with a very surprising name on the front cover

January 7, 2020 3

New Zealand wins the Battle of Rock

Legends of rock have been featured on plenty of stamps in recent years, but New Zealand has just trolled us all

October 6, 2019 7

That ’70s Showstopper

Jersey has released its sequel to last year's 1960s Popular Culture stamps. Welcome to the 1970s!

May 14, 2019 6

Love this retro Jersey

Jersey 2017 Popular Culture: The 1960s £2 miniature sheet

I am so here for this utterly ridiculous acid trip of a stamp sheetlet, looking like somebody swallowed a reel of Yellow Submarine and regurgitated it

February 8, 2018 8

Souvenirs, novelties, party tricks…

Punk Philatelist solar eclipse novelty stamps header image

Scents, silly shapes, heat-sensitive ink, music that you can hear on a record player... welcome to the super-fun world of novelty stamps!

October 18, 2017 8

Bowie’s latest release

Well this is the most exciting thing to happen this year since I accidentally swiped right on Tinder and he turned out to be a match, a babe, and leaving for overseas two days later. The UK is releasing a set of David Bowie stamps!

January 31, 2017 6

You crazy diamonds

UK 2016 1st Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon (1973) Album Cover Stamp

Attention cool uncles and boring guys at university house parties: Pink Floyd is being immortalised on stamps!

Royal Mail's tribute issue clocks in at no less than 10 stamps, which, must like a prog rock album, is more than anyone asked for and a lot more than was probably necessary to get the job done.

May 26, 2016 2

Stamp of the Day: Sorrow

David Bowie's musical output speaks for itself. I speak for the many people who were once teenagers who felt like they came from another planet. Bowie showed us it was just fine to be a bit weird.