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The 2024 Conference will be held in Peterborough from 12-14 April 2024. Booking can be made using the form included with the Bulletin, also available here. Full details are to will follow but and we are hoping that members will be able to give talks about any sundial topic of interest, usually of 20 – 40 minutes duration. Talks from new members will be very welcome. Prospective speakers should contact Doug Bateman in the first instance.

The 2022 Conference will be held at the Hilton York hotel from 22nd to 24th April 2022, and online booking is now available. For paper bookings, please use this updated version of the booking form. This corrects a couple of inaccuracies in the version included with the December Bulletin which should no longer be used.

The hotel is in a prime location – within the City walls (not to be confused with other Hiltons), 600 metres as the crow flies from the railway station and a similar distance to York Minster. It is well placed for the walking tour which is being organised by Louise and Chris Smail. Of course, there are many attractions in York if members wish to make use of some free time or are staying any extra days. Parking at the hotel is limited but there are many public car parks nearby: details are included in the December Newsletter that accompanies the Bulletin.

As well as the lecture programme there will be the usual display and many books will be on sale. For the Andrew Somerville Memorial Lecture we are privileged to host Dr Gloria Clifton. Dr Clifton is an acclaimed expert on historic scientific instruments and will talk about professional sundial makers in the British Isles from the late sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Included will be an examination of specially commissioned sundials at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, including some designed by members of the British Sundial Society.

We are hoping that members will be able to give talks about any sundial topic of interest, usually of 20 – 40 minutes duration. Talks from new members will be very welcome. Prospective speakers should contact Doug Bateman in the first instance.

 

 

 

Arrangements are already well in hand for our next Conference.

The 2016 Conference will be organised and administered by a team comprising Doug Bateman, Mike Shaw, Bill Visick, Chris and Liz Williams.

Please mark and reserve 15 -17 April 2016 firmly and prominently in your diaries! The conference will follow the traditional Friday afternoon to Sunday luncheon format.

Liverpool, and its environs, is a location not yet visited by the Society’s Conference. The venue has been booked: Jurys Inn in the redeveloped docks area. There is much to see and do beyond dialling; members may well wish to consider extending their stay. Some initial information about the location is available here and will be expanded over time.

Booking forms, and a call for papers and exhibits, will be issued early in September – with the Newsletter and Bulletin and on the website.

2016 Conference Team

The 2016 BSS Conference will be held in Liverpool from Friday 15th. to Sunday 17th. April. More details will be provided over the forthcoming months but, to whet your appetites, some initial information is provided here.

Accommodation will be at Jurys Inn in the Albert Dock area:

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