Announced by the RPSL:
The Royal Philatelic Society London received more than twenty nominations for the Crawford Medal for books published during the years 2024 and 2025. The Society is pleased to announce the short list of six from which the Crawford Medal Committee will select the 2026 winner. The winner will be announced at the end of the Crawford Festival on 17 June 2026.
The shortlisted books are:
- Italia e Iberia: la posta fra gli stati delle due penisole 1814–1876 [Italy and Iberia: the mail between the states of the two peninsulas] by Lorenzo Carra.
- The Mulready caricature: the philatelic caricatures of the envelope and letter sheet design of William Mulready RA (2 Volumes) by Richard Hobbs & Robin Cassell.
- New York City Foreign Mail 1845–1878 (2 Volumes) by N.M. Kirke.
- The handbook of stamp production: histories, dummy stamps, collectables, articles, biographies by Glenn Morgan.
- Dominica: philately to 1967 by Simon Richards.
- Northeast China local overprints by Communists 1945–1949 by Roman Scheibert.