Texts in Transition

On Saturday 18 April 2026, members of the Council gave a workshop in the practicalities of editing. Richard Dance, Ralph Hanna, Susan Irvine, Katie Lowe, William Marx and Ad Putter spoke about editing Old English and Middle English, from charters to romances, and a group of thirty graduate students and early career scholars from Finland, Germany, Japan, the UK and the USA discussed the puzzles which editing offers — and possible solutions and insolvables.

Workshop poster (PDF)

An Afternoon with Orm

To celebrate the publication of the Ormulum (OS 360 and 361), many members of the Society attended an afternoon of talks and a party at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, on Friday 22 September 2023. Speakers were Laura Ashe, Andrew Cooper, Richard Dance, Kees Dekker, Sara Pons-Sanz and Ad Putter. It was a pleasure to meet many members there.

Event poster

Textuality in Transition & the Society’s 150th birthday

In 2014 the Society celebrated the 150th anniversary of its founding. A workshop for graduate students and recently postdoctoral scholars, Textuality in Transition (20–21 May), introduced the theory and practice of editing to a new generation; on 26 June the Council held a birthday party for former and future editors, supporters from institutions such as the Scottish Text Society and the British Academy, and teachers of Old and Middle English. To mark the year, the EETS also tweeted a daily quotation from its editions — see EETS on Twitter; many quotations were selected by graduate student members.

Probable Truth

On 20–21 May 2010 the Society hosted a conference on editing medieval texts. The papers were published as Probable Truth: Editing Medieval Texts from Britain in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Vincent Gillespie and Anne Hudson (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013), available from Brepols.