21 July 2025
SOTS Bulletin 2024
BULLETIN 2024 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 2024
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 107th year, the Society was pleased to host the following meetings:
- its 1st Online Winter Meeting, 4 January 2024 – please see details here
- its 99th Summer Meeting, at Mansfield College, Oxford, 2–5 September 2024 – 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 2024
- Presidents
President from Jan 2023 – Summer 2024: Professor Katharine Dell
President 2024–2025: Dr John Jarick
Retiring President: Professor Katharine Dell (2023)
President-elect: Professor Stuart Weeks (2025–2026)
- Other Officers of the Society:
Treasurer: Dr Joseph Scales
Secretary: Rev Dr Richard Briggs
Conference Secretary: Dr Nathan Eddy
Secretary for Honorary Members: Professor Susan Gillingham
Book List Editor: Dr Samuel Hildebrandt
- Other named Committee posts:
Membership Secretary: Dr Alistair Hunter
Information Officer: Dr Suzanna Millar
Social Media Rep: Dr Ellie Lyell
EDI Representative: Dr Holly Morse
Archivist: Professor Eryl Davies
ECR/PG Rep: vacant
Other Committee Members: Dr Rosalie Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh and Professor Nathan MacDonald
- Sub-Committees
Programme Sub-Committee: The Secretary (Convener), President, President-elect, Conference Secretary, Information Officer, ECR/PG Rep, plus Dr Hywel Clifford, Professor Nathan MacDonald and Dr Sarah Nicholson
Publications Sub-Committee: The Book List Editor (Convener), Dr Adrian Curtis (as Guides Editor), Dr Anja Klein (as Monographs Editor), Dr David Firth (as SOTS Wiki editor), and Professor Hugh Williamson (as SOTS representative on the OTS Board) plus Professor Charlotte Hempel, Dr Andrew Mein and Dr Deborah Rooke
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 2024 at the University of Bangor under the oversight of the archivist Professor Eryl Davies, to whom application should be made for consulting the archive.