Samuel PepysWelcome to The Ephemera Society Website

 

The Rewards of Membership

Applications for membership are invited from all who are interested in printed and hand-written ephemera.

Members enjoy a lively programme of events and - of particular value to collectors - a number of ephemera fairs each year which promote the discovery of fresh collectable material. Members of the society enjoy the privilege of early access.

Image of members handbook Exclusive to members is the Ephemera Society Handbook listing names and addresses of fellow members and dealers with details of their collecting interests, plus a subject index to facilitate the contacting of like-minded enthusiasts and aid in the locating of relevant specialists.

Members also receive the quarterly publication of the society, The Ephemerist, which contains news, articles, members’ sales-and-wants, advertisements, notes and queries and reviews of new books and current exhibitions.

It's easy to become a member

Annual Membership Subscriptions

  • United Kingdom   £20
  • Europe   £25/€40
  • Rest of the World   £30/US$50

If you would like to become a member of the society, please complete the membership application form. We have provided a printable form for you to fill in, just click here and print it out, or download the form as a PDF file (26KB). No printer available? Then simply contact us and we will post an application form to you.

 

    The Ephemerist

    Summer 2008 issue:
    32 pages with eight in colour

    Image of The Ephemera Society magazine
  • Paul Dobraszczyk, Mike Esbester, and Paul Stiff
  • Designing information for everyday life, 1815–1914
  • Julie Anne Lambert
  • Couleurs – les prouesses de la chromolithographie
  • Phillippa Plock
  • The Waddesdon Manor trade cards, online and in the frame
  • Ralph Hyde
  • Optical prints – where are they?
  • David F. Cheshire
  • Around the galleries and in the media
Ephemera - minor transient documents of every day life