Editorial

With this issue of the BSHM Bulletin I am stepping down from my role as its Editor. In its present form the BSHM Bulletin was launched in 2006 from the old-style Bulletin that Eleanor Robson and I used to put together in an hour or so over a mug of tea. In those days the total production time was three weeks; now it is closer to four to five months, but the improvement definitely shows!

In the last seven years, the BSHM Bulletin has come to occupy a unique place in the discipline of history of mathematics, with its aim of carrying well-written articles for a general audience on a broad range of topics. Our readers are now spread around the world and range from young students to professionals.

The BSHM Bulletin would not have been what it is without the support of many other members of the BSHM. In particular, Snezana Lawrence has been tireless in collecting articles relevant to the history of mathematics in education, while Benjamin Wardhaugh has worked quietly and effectively to commission book reviews from new authors. I am very pleased that both Snezana and Benjamin will continue as Associate Editors. The Bulletin also owes an enormous debt to its Production Editor at Taylor & Francis, James Baldock, and its copyeditor, Sue Corless, both of whom have given it their personal care and meticulous attention from the beginning. Last but most, I must thank the authors, more than one hundred of them, who have contributed articles during my time as Editor. It has been pleasing to me that several ‘outsiders’ who have written for the Bulletin have later become members of the BSHM, but whether they do so or not, they are the sine qua non of the journal, and I am grateful to every one of them.

It only remains for me to wish Tony Mann as much pleasure as I have had as Editor as he takes the BSHM Bulletin into the future.Jackie Stedall