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ORDNANCE SOCIETY 2025 AGM & CONFERENCE 2026

Ordnance Society AGM 2025

 

The Annual General Meeting of the Ordnance Society will be held at 1900 UK time on Tuesday 25th February.  We will be holding it online via MS Teams, so if you would like to join, please mail neilgrant2@yahoo.co.uk

 

As part of the AGM, all committee positions are eligible for election.  If you wish to join the committee, please mail the same e-mail address above.

 

The agenda will cover a report from each committee member, plus discussion of future plans.  If you would like to raise anything else as “Any other business”…you guessed it, mail the same e-mail address.

 

The committee look forward to seeing as many members as possible at the AGM.

 

 

The Ordnance Society Conference 2026

 

The OS delivered a very successful conference this year, held at Fort Nelson and based around the theme of “Artillery post 1800 – targets, technology & tactics”.

 

We are looking to hold our next conference in late 2026, but sensibly need the call for papers to go out by the end of 2025 to give potential presenters time to research and write them.  By that time, we need to have sorted out two key things, and would like input from the membership on them.

 

– Theme.  The conference needs some sort of theme, or it will be too nebulous to attract an audience, as few people are willing to attend a conference that only has one paper that interests them.  Equally, a theme cannot be so narrow that it limits the potential audience – a conference on French Siege Artillery 1850-1870 is unlikely to get many participants.  We would like any suggestions for a theme within the constraints above.

 

– Venue.  Our last conference was in the south of the UK, so we would like to consider a more northerly venue for the next one.  However, we have noticed that fewer people are willing to travel north than to travel south.  Any venue should also ideally have artillery connections that would make good tour in the conference lunch break, rather than simply being a meeting room.  The venue will also need to seat at least 50, with AV facilities and toilets, and cannot be expensive, given that we regard it as essential to keep ticket prices at £20 or under.  We would like any suggestions for a venue which might meet the above constraints

 

Please send any suggestion to the chair at neilgrant2@yahoo.co.uk, and we will review them during the conference planning process.