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Previous officers 121

  1. Daniel Belteki 2024-2025 Director View profile
  2. Dr Jean-Baptiste Gouyon 2022-2024 Director View profile
  3. Subhadra Das 2022-2025 Director View profile
  4. Dr Erin Beeston 2022-2025 Director View profile
  5. Professor James Andrew Secord 2021-2025 Director View profile
  6. Dr Sarah Qidwai 2021-2024 Director View profile
  7. Dr Mary Augusta Brazelton 2020-2023 Director View profile
  8. Dr Emma Chartreuse Spary 2020-2025 Director View profile
  9. Dr William Raymond Macauley 2020-2023 Director View profile
  10. Professor Matthew Cobb 2020-2023 Director View profile
  11. Dr James Sumner 2019-2022 Director View profile
  12. Dr Louisiane Ferlier 2019-2022 Director View profile
  13. Dr Rohan Deb Roy 2019-2022 Director View profile
  14. Dr Sabine Marie Clarke 2018-2021 Director View profile
  15. Professor Pratik Chakrabarti 2018-2021 Director View profile
  16. Dr Isabelle Charmantier 2018-2020 Director View profile
  17. Jemma Tamsin Houghton 2018-2023 Director View profile
  18. Dr Elizabeth Haines 2017-2020 Director View profile
  19. Prof Robert Iliffe 2017-2020 Director View profile
  20. Dr Timothy Martyn Boon 2017-2021 Director View profile
  21. Dr Sadiah Qureshi 2017-2020 Director View profile
  22. Dr Patricia Fara 2016-2019 Director View profile
  23. Dr Martha Fleming 2016-2019 Director View profile
  24. Dr Michael Miles Parker 2016-2018 Director View profile
  25. Dr Ida Harmina Stamhuis 2016-2018 Director View profile
  26. Dr Charlotte Sleigh 2016-2023 Director View profile
  27. Dr Anna Marie Roos 2016-2019 Director View profile
  28. Professor Gregory Radick 2015-2017 Director View profile
  29. Dr Matthew Daniel Eddy 2015-2018 Director View profile
  30. Professor Sally Shuttleworth 2014-2017 Director View profile
  31. Dr Sean Johnston 2014-2017 Director View profile
  32. Dr Elizabeth Mary Bruton 2014-2017 Director View profile
  33. Dr David Charles Beck 2013-2017 Director View profile
  34. Dr John Christopher Henry 2012-2016 Director View profile
  35. Richard Noakes 2012-2017 Director View profile
  36. Dr Charlotte Bigg 2012-2016 Director View profile
  37. Alison Boyle 2012-2016 Director View profile
  38. Dr Felicity Claire Henderson 2011-2014 Director View profile
  39. Dr Simon Keith Naylor 2011-2014 Director View profile
  40. Professor Hasok Chang 2011-2016 Director View profile
  41. Dr Ralph O'Connor 2011-2013 Director View profile
  42. Dr Rhodri Lloyd Hayward 2011-2013 Director View profile
  43. Dr Katrina Joanne Dean 2010-2011 Director View profile
  44. Jakob Whitfield 2010-2013 Director View profile
  45. Professor David Livingstone 2010-2011 Director View profile
  46. Dr Simon Chaplin 2010-2016 Director View profile
  47. Dr Sally Margaret Horrocks 2009-2013 Director View profile
  48. Dr Thomas Dixon 2009-2012 Director View profile
  49. Professor Jonathan Edward Agar 2009-2014 Director View profile
  50. Dr Anne Secord 2009-2012 Director View profile
  51. Professor Geoffrey Nat Cantor 2008-2011 Director View profile
  52. Dr Staffan Erik Wilhelm Muller Wille 2008-2012 Director View profile
  53. Peter Neville Reed 2007-2012 Director View profile
  54. Dr Jeffrey Alan Hughes 2007-2011 Director View profile
  55. Elizabeth Mary Hannon 2007-2010 Director View profile
  56. Dr Fern Melinda Elsdon-Baker 2007-2010 Director View profile
  57. Dr Adam John Mosley 2006-2009 Director View profile
  58. Professor Charles William John Withers 2005-2009 Director View profile
  59. Professor Michael Richard Worboys 2005-2009 Director View profile
  60. Dr John Michael Van Wyhe 2005-2009 Director View profile
  61. Professor Gregory Michael Radick 2004-2010 Director View profile
  62. Professor Simon John Schaffer 2004-2009 Director View profile
  63. Sophie Victoria Weeks 2004-2007 Director View profile
  64. Dr Gowan Dawson 2004-2007 Director View profile
  65. Dr Joe Cain 2004-2007 Director View profile
  66. Dr Silke Maren Ackerman 2003-2005 Director View profile
  67. Rebekah Frances Higgitt 2003-2006 Director View profile
  68. Professor Peter John Bowler 2003-2007 Director View profile
  69. James Brinton Sumner 2002-2005 Director View profile
  70. Dr Charlotte Lydia Sleigh 2002-2005 Director View profile
  71. Prof David Charles Gooding 2002-2005 Director View profile
  72. Dr Iwan Rhys Morus 2001-2004 Director View profile
  73. Dr Geoffrey Bunn 2001-2005 Director View profile
  74. Dr Silvia De Renzi 2001-2004 Director View profile
  75. Dr Eileen Magnello 2001-2004 Director View profile
  76. Prof Elizabeth Janet Browne 2001-2005 Director View profile
  77. Dr Paula Ann Gould 2000-2004 Director View profile
  78. Dr Aileen Fyfe 2000-2007 Director View profile
  79. Dr William John Ashworth 2000-2003 Director View profile
  80. Dr Alison Morrison-Low 1999-2002 Director View profile
  81. Prof Crosbie Wimperis Smith 1999-2004 Director View profile
  82. Dr James Arthur Bennett 1999-2003 Director View profile
  83. Dr Samuel John Matthew Mayer Alberti 1999-2002 Director View profile
  84. Professor Arthur Maurice Lucas 1999-2002 Director View profile
  85. Johnston, Stephen Andrew, Doctor 1998-2001 Director View profile
  86. Peter Michael Digby Collins 1998-2001 Director View profile
  87. Professor Ludmilla Jane Jordanova 1997-2001 Director View profile
  88. Dr Sophie Forgan 1996-1999 Director View profile
  89. David Edward Herbert Edgerton 1996-2000 Director View profile
  90. Dr Liba Taub 1996-1999 Director View profile
  91. Katherine Denise Watson 1996-1999 Director View profile
  92. Dr Penelope Mary Gouk 1995-1998 Director View profile
  93. Graeme John Norman Gooday 1995-2002 Director View profile
  94. Professor John Shipley Rowlinson 1995-1998 Director View profile
  95. Professor John Hedley Brooke 1995-1999 Director View profile
  96. Professor Martin John Kemp 1994-1997 Director View profile
  97. Morton, Alan Queen, Doctor 1994-1997 Director View profile
  98. Jonathan Edward Agar 1994-2001 Director View profile
  99. Professor David Marcus Knight 1993-1997 Director View profile
  100. Peter Richard Ellis 1993-1996 Director View profile
  101. Penelope Anne Secord 1993-1996 Director View profile
  102. Dr Mari Elen Wyn Williams 1993-1998 Director View profile
  103. Dr Jonathan Richard Topham 1992-1995 Director View profile
  104. Professor William Frederick Bynum 1992-1995 Director View profile
  105. Dr Robert Cecil Olby 1993 Director View profile
  106. Dr Paul Julian Weindling 1996 Director View profile
  107. Dr Elspeth Mary Gabrielle Crawford 1994 Director View profile
  108. Dr Jonathan Hartwell Harwood 1994 Director View profile
  109. Geoffrey Nat Cantor 1995 Director View profile
  110. Dr Desmond George King-Hele 1993 Director View profile
  111. Professor Frank Arthur John Lord James 2009 Director View profile
  112. Dr Christopher Lawrence 1992 Director View profile
  113. Dr Gerrylynn Kuszen Roberts 1994 Director View profile
  114. Dr Stephen Pumfrey 1996 Director View profile
  115. Professor Hugh Simon Torrens 1993 Director View profile
  116. Gill Hudson 1992 Director View profile
  117. Dr Dorinda Outram 1993 Director View profile
  118. Lucy Jane Santos 2009-2017 Secretary View profile
  119. Dr Viviane Marguerite Quirke 2006-2011 Secretary View profile
  120. Philip Edwin Crane 2004-2009 Secretary View profile
  121. Bennett, Geoffrey, Wing Comm 2003 Secretary View profile

Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.

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About

Incorporated
03/03/1956
Also a registered charity
The British Society for the History of Science

Financials

Net assets
£353,221
Total assets
£353,221
Employees
0
Turnover
Not reported (small or micro-entity accounts)

Filed as Micro-entity accounts.

Figures from accounts filed at Companies House (iXBRL), period ending 2024-12-31. Where turnover is absent, small and micro-entity accounts are not required to report it, so it is not shown as zero.

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.

15 directors on the board

4.5y median 2.8y
average tenure
26y
longest tenure

Directors past 6 years

First-time vs portfolio directors

First-time (15)

5
left in the last 12 months

Gaps to watch

  • No director brings board experience from anywhere else
  • Narrow spread of sectors across the board

Where to look Suggested search: a director with board experience elsewhere; directors from a wider range of sectors.

Sources

Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Company number
00562208
Status
Active
Type
PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.

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