The on-line AGM is still scheduled for next week, on Tuesday 10th November; and the following document (for OS Members only) includes the Agenda and an OS Board member nomination slip:

OS AGM Agenda Nov 10th 2026

The Ordnance Society Annual General Meeting is getting back to schedule. So the 2025 AGM will take place on Tuesday 10^th November at 7pm GMT.
The meeting is open to all paid-up members of the Ordnance Society: you are urged to join the meeting if at all possible, to hear about the work of the OS and ensure good governance. The meeting will be online only.
Please let the Secretary know of your intention to attend: he will see that an invitation is sent to you.

Proposals for new Board members are very much welcomed. If you would like to make a nomination, first please check that the member is willing to stand then let the Secretary have your proposal in writing, either by email or post: please note new postal address.

Nicholas Hall
Hon Secretary

aghada_hall@yahoo.co.uk

Rose Cottage
Mendlesham Green
STOWMARKET

IP21 4XT

There is a “Call For Papers” for the above Conference, to be held in the National Maritime Museum Greenwich on Saturday 20 March 2027.  Full details are on the ORDNANCE EVENTS page.

Neil Grant has been working hard to get the previously postponed visit to ROF Glascoed re-scheduled, and has successfully managed a new agreed date of Tuesday 29th September.  Please contact Neil if you would like to join the visit.

The latest indices on the PUBLICATIONS pages have now been updated to include Newsletter No. 154.

The latest Newsletter No. 154 is now available for download from the DOWNLOADS sub-page of the PUBLICATIONS page; and is available for members only. The Newsletter has also been e-mailed to Ordnance Society members, and will be posted to members who have opted for hard copy in the next few days.

The annoying action in the website, that insists on re-keying the password every time you move from one ‘members only’ page to the other ‘members only’ page, has now been eliminated:

The two different passwords  for PUBLICATIONS DOWNLOADS and for ORDNANCE DOWNLOADS have now been merged into one – which is the existing password for PUBLICATIONS DOWNLOADS.

The latest Newsletter No. 153 is now available for download from the DOWNLOADS sub-page of the PUBLICATIONS page; and is available for members only. The Newsletter has also been e-mailed to Ordnance Society members, and will be posted to members who have opted for hard copy in the next few days.

THIS IS OUR FIRST MAJOR PRESS RELEASE:

PRESS RELEASE From Desk to Digitisation Sharing and Safeguarding an Important Archive of British Cannon Research

Two more papers for the AGM are now available for download:

Charles Trollope’s Archive Report

Website Report 2025