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 43, No.1 – January 2019
A new initiative, agreed by Council in September and currently being implemented, is seeing fruition in the gradual expansion of items available for sale through the BIOS webstore. The store was originally set up for the purpose of marketing the items that are home produced – The Leffler Book, the Freeman Book, the HOSA CD, plus current and archive copies… read more
BIOS Reporter – Volume 42, No.4 – October 2018
I am writing this on the last day of August. As usual at this time of year, I have just returned from the annual three-day conference of diocesan organ advisers, which this year was held in Manchester. Just over half of the dioceses of the Church of England were represented, together with two representatives from the Church Buildings Council and… read more
BIOS Reporter – Volume 42, No.3 – July 2018
Last autumn I was pleased to have the opportunity of travelling to Chester to talk to their local organists’ association about the work of BIOS and, between writing this and its appearance in print, I will have made a similar visit to the Sheffield association of organists’. The hope, and indeed purpose, of these trips is to try to recruit… read more
BIOS Reporter – Volume 42, No.2 – April 2018
The BIOS year started well in February with the annual Bernard Edmonds Research Conference, held in the splendid surroundings of the Barber Institute at Birmingham University. There was, as always, a wide range of interesting papers with some good questions and useful discussion following on from them. For whatever reason, there was a particularly good turnout this year. May I… read more
BIOS Reporter – Volume 42, No.1 – January 2018
The copy date for this edition of the BIOS Reporter is in early December, so as I write this column my mind is naturally focussing on the events of the past year as well as the Christmas celebrations of the coming weeks. However, by the time the issue drops onto your doormat we will all have seen the New Year… read more
BIOS Reporter – Volume 41, No.4 – October 2017
Members who frequent County Archives may have noted with alarm a news item in the Sunday Telegraph of 27 August reporting that councils are reducing the hours and days where the public can see records for free. The announcement in July by Northamptonshire County Council that it would cut free access to its archives to three mornings and twelve hours… read more
BIOS Reporter – Volume 41, No.3 – July 2017
Our thanks go to Richard Hobson for his work in arranging the excellent programme for our recent AGM day at St George the Martyr, Southwark, and to the members who attended. We are delighted to record the unanimous approval given by the meeting to the appointment of Nicholas Thistlethwaite as our new Honorary President and to the conferment of the… read more
BIOS Reporter – Volume 41, No.2 – April 2017
The year is now well under way. Amid all the upheaval and uncertainty of today’s world, the routine of life at grass roots level goes on as usual. The BIOS year opened in the customary way with the Bernard Edmonds Research Conference at Birmingham. It is always an interesting and informative occasion, comprising six half-hour slots in which individual contributors… read more
BIOS Reporter – Volume 41, No.1 – January 2017
We have finally reached the end of our 40th anniversary year, the climax of the celebrations being the three-day Conference at Cambridge and the launch of the new book In Search of Organs, both of which were fully reported in the last edition of the Reporter. BIOS is delighted that the new book has aroused great interest (and admiration) and… read more
BIOS Reporter – Volume 40, No.4 – October 2016
A week ago I was proposing a toast to BIOS in the splendid candlelight setting of the Hall at Magdalene College, at the culmination of the Friday evening dinner celebrating our 40th anniversary… read more
