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 50, No.3 – August 2026
Adrian Mumford has been busy revising the BIOS Safeguarding Policy. This was approved by Council and should be available on the website by the time this Reporter reaches you. The revision was a requirement for a grant from the Julia Rausing Trust, which has awarded BIOS £10,000 over five years. The funding is specifically for the NPOR. I am grateful… read more
BIOS Reporter – Volume 50, No.2 – May 2026
The Golden Jubilee Conference in Oxford was a tremendous success, and I would like to thank everyone who devoted so much time and energy toorganising it. In particular, thanks are due to Dr. Katie Pardee, Richard Hobson, Adrian Mumford, Melvin Hughes, Melanie Plumley, and Dr. David Shuker. Preparing for the conference was a long and demanding process, but the success… read more
BIOS Reporter – Volume 50, No.1 – February 2026
Our most substantial news item is further detail about the Golden Jubilee Conference, scheduled to take place at Wadham College, Oxford, between 9 and 11 April this year. The conference will celebrate 50 years of BIOS and its activities, while also looking ahead to future initiatives and priorities. Further information about the conference can be found elsewhere in this edition.… read more
BIOS Reporter – Volume 49, No.4 – November 2025
As we move towards our Golden Jubilee celebrations and conference in 2026, there are a number of developments which I’d like to draw to your attention. For ease of reference I have set these out under subheadings below. Did you know you have a membership number? Do you know what it is?You will need this number if you wish to… read more
BIOS Reporter – Volume 49, No.3 – August 2025
Welcome to the Reporter for August 2025. There are many activities and events to mention and I have set these out under subheadings below. Some of the items touched-on here are presented in detail elsewhere in this edition. read more
BIOS Reporter – Volume 49, No.2 – May 2025
I continue to be amazed at the extent of the work undertaken by individual BIOS council members on behalf of the Institute – and I take this opportunityto thank them for their labours. Much has been achieved in the last months – but there is more to do. At the next Council meeting we will be discussing a range of… read more
BIOS Reporter – Volume 49, No.1 – February 2025
In December 2024, BIOS received a legacy from the estate of the late Gary Rant. This substantial sum has, of course, been gratefully received. At the lastCouncil meeting, a discussion ensued as to whether such legacies should be invested or spent furthering BIOS’s aims. We already have adequate fundsavailable for activities, some of which are held in investments. The publications… read more
BIOS Reporter – Volume 48, No.4 – November 2024
The front cover of this edition of the Reporter shows a watercolour of an organ made by George Maydwell Holdich (1816-1896). It was for ‘[St Oswald’s’] Malpas, Cheshire’, and was opened 21st November 1841. It had one row of keys, a general swell, key-compass GG to F, ten stops up to Sesquialtera, with Trumpet. (See NPOR N04357). The image was… read more
BIOS Reporter – Volume 48, No.3 – August 2024
My first task as incoming Chair of BIOS is to thank those who have recently stepped down from their roles. We thank them for their involvement and dedicated work, without which BIOS could not function efficiently. In the last issue of the BIOS Reporter, Nicholas Thistlethwaite thanked Alan Thurlow for his excellent custodianship of the role of Chair – and… read more
BIOS Reporter – Volume 48, No.2 – May 2024
BIOS’s programme for 2024 got off to a good start with the conference at Peterhouse, Cambridge on 16 March when approximately fifty members ofBIOS, the IBO, and CAOS (Cambridge Academy of Organ Studies) met to hear, and hear about the 1765 Snetzler organ reconstructed by a joint teamfrom Flentrop (Zaandam) and Klais (Bonn). The meeting is reviewed later in this… read more
