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18 MAY 2020 www.allaboutstamps.co.uk IN BRIEF Belgium have celebrated the 75th anniversary of the United Nations with a stamp design showing the UN headquarters in New York. The stamp is available in a sheet of five stamps, with an image of a UN general assembly meeting in the background. The stamp also features a ‘special logo designed for the presence of Belgium in the UN Security Council in 2019-2020’. Estonia’s national archives, known as ‘Rahvusarhiiv’ are celebrated on a new stamp which features the maze-like pattern which can be seen on the side of the building in the city of Tartu. The archives hold around 8.8 million records, the oldest from 1240, and 9.5 million metres of film recordings. The archives was founded in March 1920 and also has offices in Tallinn. Read about many more new stamps from around the world, including every stamp issued by post office partners Jersey Post, Guernsey Post, Faroe Islands, Luxembourg Post and Botswana Post, on our popular website: www.allaboutstamps.co.uk THE LATEST STAMPS Issued by Isle of Man Post Office on 16 March 2020, a set of ten stamps celebrating works of arts chiefly drawn from the Isle of Man National Art Collection as part of a complementary year-long exhibition ‘A Place To Nurture Manx Art’. This stamp issue and exhibition champion The Douglas School of Art as a centre of excellence and traces its history from a private collective to its successful adoption into the Isle of Man Government education system 100 years ago and its continuing success today. While this year is the centenary of the school as a publicly-funded educational establishment, its history extends back into the nineteenth century. Since the opening of the school in 1880, many of Isle of Man’s most well-known artists either have taught at the school or have been a student there, or both. Graduates of the school have earned a reputation for high achievement in many areas of art and design worldwide. Upon opening the School of Art in the 19th century, the intention was for students to learn skills that would help nurture future careers as art teachers or trade apprentices. The subject matter and primary teachings of the school were very much led by each headmaster, there were several over the years and each one signified a new era. By 1943, the school had gained a new name, The School of Arts & Crafts, and with an expanded list of classes, student numbers rose dramatically. By the 1960s, society and the world in general, art, youth culture were changing, the young people were approaching and engaging with art in a different way. One of its ex-pupils, Norman Sayle, now led the art school and together with staff such as Maurice Day, Eric Houlgrave and David Fletcher, he encouraged the students to experiment and to look at the world around them with new eyes. By the late 1960s, the school was beginning to show its age and it moved to a new purpose built College of Further Education. Since 1970, the old School of Art building has been used as Douglas Youth Centre and is now the Island’s Youth Arts Centre. e Douglas School of Art ISLE OF MAN POST