BIOS publishes a quarterly Reporter newsletter and magazine and a yearly Journal. Both contain articles on organ history, the Journal hoping to attract mature studies, the Reporter offering a place for exposure of interim or conjectural work.
The Journal archive is available under the ‘Resources’ tab but only to BIOS members. For technical reasons, four editions of the Reporter are not yet available through the website but work is ongoing to fill these gaps.
If you are looking for uses of a particular word, the BIOS guide to ‘searching by keyword‘ may be helpful.
BIOS Reporter – Volume 48, No.1 – February 2024
For nearly fifty years, since the foundation of BIOS in 1976, the BIOS Reporter has been the principal channel of communication between theCouncil, the Officers, and the general membership. Appearing (almost) invariably four times a year, it has recorded the society’s activities, advertised forthcoming events, alerted members to looming controversies in the organ world, and provided a forum for an… read more
BIOS Reporter – Volume 47, No.4 – November 2023
Avid readers of the Church Times (there are still a few, in addition to job-hunting clergy) will have been aware for some time of the looming threat to the Church of England’s stock of church buildings. This is nothing new, of course. In the nineteenth century, our practical Victorian ancestors thinned out the number of churches in the City of… read more
BIOS Reporter – Volume 47, No.3 – August 2023
It is with a certain sense of déjà vu that I embark on writing my first proper ‘From the Chairman’ column for what is (if my calculations are correct) the 186th issue of the BIOS Reporter (It would have been the 187th issue had there not been a double issue in the distant past). In fact, the early issues of… read more
BIOS Reporter – Volume 47, No.2 – May 2023
Members will find the Secretary’s report of the BIOS Annual General Meeting held on 22 April at Chelsea, O1d Church below (page 34). There, the circumstances in which your Hon. President has also assumed office as Hon. Chairman will be explained. Rest assured that this is not a coup d’état, as our Secretary explains’ Council members have a prospective Chairman… read more
BIOS Reporter – Volume 47, No.1 – February 2023
Although writing this just a week into the new year I am conscious that by the time it reaches members it will be towards the middle of February, so it’s a little late to be sending new year greetings. Nevertheless, I know we all hope that 2023 will prove to be the year in which life finally retums to something… read more
BIOS Reporter – Volume 46, No.2 – May 2022
After two years of restrictions of varying severity, how encouraging it is to witness the seeds of life gradually retuning towards normal (if not yet quite there). By the time Members read this edition of BIOS Reporter our Council will have held its first ‘live’ meeting since January 2020: also, within these pages you will see that we are planning… read more
BIOS Reporter – Volume 46, No.1 – February 2022
As we get underway in this New Year it is still hard to plan ahead with any degree of certainty. We had hoped that, for the first time in two years, it would be possible to hold a ‘real’ Council meeting in January, but an enquiry recently sent out to those involved has just resulted in a decision to meet… read more
BIOS Reporter – Volume 45, No.4 – November 2021
Life is far from being back to normal again, but at least the beginnings are there. Some ‘real’ meetings are beginning to take place instead of what had started to become yet another routine session on ‘Zoom’ (convenient and inexpensive though those have been) and trains, shops and city centres are once more beginning to feel crowded. Above all, our… read more
