SOTS Bulletin 2025

BULLETIN 2025

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 108^th year, the Society was pleased to host the following meetings:

• its 2^nd Online Winter Meeting, 9 January 2025 – please see details here
• its 100^th Summer Meeting, at Collingwood College, Durham, 21–24 July 2025 – 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 2025

• Presidents

President 2024–2025: Dr John Jarick

President 2025–2026: Professor Stuart Weeks

Retiring President: Professor Katharine Dell (2023–2024)

President-elect: David Firth (2026–2027)

• 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: vacant

EDI Representative: Dr Holly Morse

Archivist: Professor Eryl Davies

ECR/PG Rep: Mr Kengoro Goto

Other Committee Members: Dr Olga Fabricant-Burke, Dr Elizabeth Hare, 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, Dr Holly Morse 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, Professor Laura Quick 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 2025 at the University of Bangor under the oversight of the archivist Professor Eryl Davies, to whom application should be made for consulting the archive.