21 July 2025

SOTS Bulletin 2023

BULLETIN 2023 The Society’s website (https://www.sots.ac.uk/) is its main source of all information, including details on how the Society operates, its future meetings, a (permanent) call for papers, other notifications and items of news. Guidance to find specific items is offered here: Meetings In…

BULLETIN 2023

The Society’s website (/) is its main source of all information, including details on how the Society operates, its future meetings, a (permanent) call for papers, other notifications and items of news. Guidance to find specific items is offered here:

Meetings

In its 106th year, the Society was pleased to host the following meetings:

  • its 98th Winter Meeting, at the Endcliffe Campus, Sheffield, 3–5 January 2023 – please see details here
  • its 98th Summer Meeting, at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, 4–7 September 2023 – please see details here

Membership News

Details of membership news, including notifications of deaths, new members, and noteworthy awards and other matters, may be found in the minutes of the Society’s Business Meetings held at these two conferences – please see details here (restricted, in the tradition of the Society’s Bulletin, to members only).

Honorary Members

Details of Honorary Members, past and present, may be found here.

Other Information that was formerly included annually in the Bulletin

The Society’s website hosts the Society’s list of past presidents, now including pictures, here. It also allows members to see the annual summary financial report in the Society’s Business Meeting minutes (here). These are available in draft form immediately after a Business Meeting, though remain to be accepted formally at the succeeding Business Meeting.

Record of Officers and Committees for 2023

President: Professor Katharine Dell

Retiring President: Professor Charlotte Hempel

President-elect: Dr John Jarick

Treasurer: Dr Joseph Scales

Secretary: Rev Dr Richard Briggs

Secretary for Honorary Members: Professor Susan Gillingham

Membership Secretary: Dr Alistair Hunter

Hospitality Secretary: Dr Janet Fyffe with Dr Julie Woods

Book List Editor: Dr John Jarick

Information Officer: Dr Zanne Domoney-Lyttle, then vacant, then Dr Suzanna Millar (acting)

Social Media Rep: Dr Ellie Lyell

Archivist: Professor Eryl Davies

Committee: The above plus: Dr Rosalie Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh, Dr Sharon Moughtin-Mumby and Dr Katherine Southwood

Programme Sub-Committee: The Secretary (Convener), President, President-elect, Hospitality Secretary, Information Officer, plus Dr Nathan MacDonald, Dr Sarah Nicholson and Professor Stuart Weeks

Publications Sub-Committee: The Book List Editor (Convener), Dr Adrian Curtis (as Guides Editor), Dr Anja Klein (as Monographs Editor), the SOTS Wiki editor (vacant), and Professor Hugh Williamson (as SOTS representative on the OTS Board) plus Dr Andrew Mein and Dr Suzanna Millar.

Contact details for people listed here are available to Members only – via the Society’s address list, which is kept up to date on the website Members’ Space here.

Archives

In cases of enquiry for historical research purposes, copies of all the Society’s materials are deposited in the Society’s archive – held as of 2023 at the University of Bangor under the oversight of the archivist Professor Eryl Davies, to whom application should be made for consulting the archive.

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