Exclusive to WES Queen's Platinum Jubilee Pen14 May 2022WES is pleased to offer this Limited Edition Onoto Fountain Pen to its members to celebrate our Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. We have selected the same distinctive dark blue acrylic material as the Read more
2022 UK Pen Show Dates Released1 February 2022UK Pen Shows have released dates for the 2022 run of pen shows. The current line-up is as follows: London Spring 6th March 2022 Northern 24th April 2022 Birmingham 26th June 2022 Newcastle 4th Read more
1818 Auctioneers gain the WES Quality Mark1 July 2021The Society is pleased to announce that 1818 Auctions has been through the WES Quality Mark training and has been awarded the WES Quality Mark for Auctions. This means that members can both sell and Read more
Christmas Message from WES Chairman23 December 2020My friends and colleagues I offer you my sincere apologies for once again letting you down. I am currently not healthy enough to produce a Christmas bumper edition of the Journal, however we are Read more
WES Pen Repair Classes 2020-202120 December 2020These are for WES members. Read on for some history, the objective and content and getting ready to restart now that a Covid vaccine is underway. The first Face-to Face (F2F) WES Pen Repair Class Read more
WES Pen Repair Classes 2020-202129 January 2020The Covid Virus lockdown came in just as our 2019/20 Class series was in its closing stages. It looks as though Face-to-Face classes will start again next year. If you want to be part of them, Read more
We're now on YouTube!1 May 2019We now have a YouTube channel with videos you can watch! Head on over to the WES YouTube channel where we will post regular videos about writing ephemera. Read more
We're now on Instagram!9 March 2019If you are on Instagram, go check out our new Instagram account where we post daily photos of pens and other writing ephemera on Instagram.com/writingequipmentsociety Read more
New WES website launched!24 September 2018Welcome to the new Writing Equipment Society website! We hope you like the appearance of your new site and find it easy to use. The site now encompasses the membership database which is of course subject to the privacy rules laid down by the General Data Protection Rules, 2018 along with information relevant to the Society's aims that is only available to members. Read more
Museum of Writing Research Collection Catalogue10 August 2021The Museum of Writing Research Collection is pleased to announce that the Beta version of its online catalogue is now live. It represents an example of most of the categories in the collection and Read more
