This is the Society's journal, published four times a year and sent free to members. It is attractively produced and illustrated, and contains information and articles about a wide range of instruments, as well as book and exhibition reviews, news of SIS activities, and meetings of related societies. There is a lively letters page and 'mystery objects' are presented whilst antique dealers and auction houses regularly take advertising space, so that collectors may find the Bulletin a means of learning about upcoming sales and adding to their collections.
A selection of articles and features from the current issue is always available online, as part of the table of contents
Use the link below to access the complete archive of those articles we have featured online
Selections from current and past issues
Try this article from the archive
Glass Sundials in 17th c. London
Geoffrey Lane describes dials on painted glass, formerly a common sight in churches, colleges, livery halls and private houses (November 2007)
The Bulletin is available on CD-ROM. A two CD set has been produced which includes fully searchable scans of the first 81 issues and index, totalling about 3000 pages of text.
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Three pages cannot be downloaded properly because of incompatibility in the software used in the production of these CDs. They are available here as individual PDF files - click to view or download:
Issue no. 2, p 4
Issue no. 66, p 8
Issue no. 81, p 10
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A printed index of issues 1 to 80 of the Bulletin was produced for members of the Society. A digital version is now freely available to all as a 16Mb PDF file
The pdf (167 KB) available here supplements the published article on Storer by Dr Peter de Clercq that appeared in Bulletin 98 (September 2008)