Category: BIOS Reporter
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
BIOS Reporter – Volume 46, No.4 – November 2022
I started my column in the August edition of the Reporter with an appeal for the donation of a copy of the ‘missing’ volume (1985:4) in the archive collection we hold at the Cadbury Research Library. Thanks to the good memory of Paul Tindall and a few other longstanding members of BIOS we have now…
BIOS Reporter – Volume 46, No.3 – August 2022
May I start by thanking those who responded to our request for back copies of the Reporter in order to complete the set held in the British Organ Archive. Thanks to the generosity of those who have come forward to donate copies to fill the gaps we can report that the Archive now has a…
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…
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…
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…