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Annual Programmes

It is hoped that over time, this page will become a more complete archive of the programme of events for the IBNS London Branch as and when I come across the information.

2025 Annual Programme

January 30th

When Art meets Banknotes - French banknote designs

March 27th

German Hyperinflation Notes

May 29th

The Inimitable Note

July 31st

British Skit Notes

September 25th

The Chinese Cloth Banknote of the Workers and Peasants Bank of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Government

November 27th

AGM and Auction

2024 Annual Programme

February 29th

North Korea and its Banknotes

April 12th

IBNS London Banknote Forum
Sylvia Young Theatre School, 1 Nutford Place, London W1H 5YZ

May 30th

Highlights of Sri Lankan Banknotes from 1785 to Present

July 25th

Banknotes of Ukraine

August 29th

Bank of England Numbers

October 31st

AGM & Auction

November 28th

Film Night

2023 Annual Programme

January 26th

The Portuguese Bank Note Case

February 23rd

UK Polymer Banknotes

March 30th

Leith Bank and its Notes

April 27th

Meandering Down The Thames: Private Banks, Banknotes and their Issuers

May 25th

Provincial Banks of Middlesex and Surrey

June 29th

Afghanistan Banknotes

July 27th

Mexican Banknotes

August 31st

To Be Confirmed

September 30th

NO MEETING

October 6th and 7th

World Paper Money Fair
See www.wpmf.info for more details

October 26th

Bank of England Branch Notes

November 30th

To Be Confirmed

December 28th

NO MEETING

2022 Annual Programme

January 28th

Ten years of paper money acquisitions by the British Museum, 2011–2021

February 25th

The Note Issues of the Hudson Bay Company

March 25th

Visual aspects of Banknote Design

April 29th

Vignettes on US notes and the engraver Charles Burt (an apprentice of William Lizars)

May 27th

Brazil

June 24th

Zanzibar and its notes

July 29th

English, Scottish and Irish Skit Notes

August 26th

Isle of Man Internment Camp Notes

September 30th

NO MEETING

October 1st and 2nd

World Paper Money Fair
See www.wpmf.info for more details

October 28th

Currencies of Conflict and Dissent

November 25th

Conservation and Treatment of Paper Money and related paper artefacts

December 30th

NO MEETING

2021 Annual Programme

January 28th

Design aspects of Modern British Notes Part 2

February 25th

A live tour of the Bank of England banknote collection

March 25th

Sterling Notes of the British Overseas Territories

April 29th

Ukrainian banknotes, including mayoral and regional issues

May 27th

Watermark codes on Bank of England notes 1865 - 1956

June 24th

Money in British Columbia before the Coming of the Railway

July 29th

The Banknote Issues of Spitsbergen/Svalbard

August 26th

Isle of Man Internment Camp notes

September 30th

NO MEETING

October 1st and 2nd

World Paper Money Fair
See www.wpmf.info for more details

October 28th

United States National Banks – the conversion from the obsolete era to the National era

November 25th

Conservation and Treatment of Paper Money and related paper artefacts

December 30th

NO MEETING

2020 Annual Programme

January 30th

Boer War Note Issues

February 27th

Bhutan and its Banknotes

March 26th

Banknotes of the British West Indies to 1950

April 30th

More Stories from Bradbury Wilkinson

May 28th

Notgeld Issues of the German Weimar Republic

June 25th

Paper Money Issues of the French Revolution

July 30th

Short Snorters

August 27th

Design aspects of Modern British Notes

September 24th

NO MEETING

October 2nd and 3rd

World Paper Money Fair
See www.wpmf.info for more details

October 29th

The Escudo Paper Money of Portugal 1928 onwards

November 26th

AGM and Banknote Auction

December 24th

NO MEETING

2019 Annual Programme

January 31st

(Un) Common Currency - A Brief History of London Alternative Currencies

February 28th

British Military Note Issues

March 28th

"We pretend to work, they pretend to pay": Paper Money under Communism

April 25th

History of the Postal Order

May 30th

Treasury Note Research Update

June 27th

The Escudo Paper Money of Portugal 1911-1928

July 25h

What's New in Irish Notes

August 29th

A Celebration

September 26th

NO MEETING

October 4th and 5th

World Paper Money Fair
See www.wpmf.info for more details

October 31st

Commercial Issuing Banks of the World

November 28th

AGM and Banknote Auction

December 26th

NO MEETING

2018 Annual Programme

January 25th

Designing the RBS Polymer Notes

February 22nd

Hazel, A Simple Irish Girl, A film on Lady Lavery

March 29th

Guernsey Wartime Fractional Note Issues

April 13th

IBNS Banknote Forum 2018

April 26th

Grading seminar

May 31st

To Be Confirmed

June 28th

To Be Confirmed

July 26th

To Be Confirmed

August 30th

To Be Confirmed

September 27th

NO MEETING

October 5th and 6th

World Paper Money Fair
See www.wpmf.info for more details

October 25th

"Mr. Turner"

November 29th

AGM and Banknote Auction

December 27th

NO MEETING

2017 Programme of Events

January 26th

Exchequer Documents of the 17th to 19th Centuries

February 23rd

How to Spot a Bernhard

March 30th

German Notgeld Issues 1914-1922

April 27th

French Paper Money From 1720

May 25th

Tales from De La Rue

June 29th

Indian Government Anti-Forgery Collaborations c.1918

July 27th

The Bank of England Museum's Display of the new Jane Austen £10 Note

August 31st

To Be Confirmed

September 28th

NO MEETING

September 29th and 30th

World Paper Money Fair
See www.wpmf.info for more details

October 26th

"Mr. Turner"

November 30th

AGM and Banknote Auction

December 28th

NO MEETING

  1. 2016 Programme of Events
  2. 2015 Programme of Events
  3. 2014 Programme of Events
  4. 2013 Programme of Events

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