Brian Pope was a foundation member of the Western Australian Study Group in 1974, and has supported / assisted research of the postal history, as well as having major research studies published on various aspects of that State.  He has published many books on Western Australian philately, the latest being Western Australia: The Forces, Prisoners of War and Censor Mail (1997) co-authored with Brian Haynes.

Over the 20 years of his research many articles have been published in the Black Swan (Western Australian Study Group journal of which he is currently editor) as well as in Philately from Australia and Sydney Views.

Brian's research work has been published for study by other philatelists and provides new information of significant nature or reassessment of known data and has greatly extended the knowledge of the philately of Western Australia.

[ Source:  APF News, October 1997 ]