As I write, it is almost a year since we so sadly lost Jackie Stedall, who did so much to create the Bulletin in its current form and to shape its development. Like so many others, I miss Jackie greatly, and the Bulletin is very much poorer without her input. I am therefore very pleased that this issue includes an obituary by Eleanor Robson – who herself contributed so much to the design and production of the Bulletin under Jackie's editorship – which recalls the work she and Jackie did together in the early days of the Bulletin and which created the journal you are reading now.
The issue also includes a report on the sixth joint meeting of the BSHM and the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics, which took place in Washington DC in August. Since the first meeting in Oxford in 1997 these meetings have taken place regularly, alternately on either side of the Atlantic. The reach and quality of these meetings is testament to the work done by both societies in promoting the study of the history of mathematics and the current strength of the discipline. We are happy to report that the Washington meeting was as successful as its predecessors and we look forward to the next in this series.
Once again we have reached the final issue for the year and I would like to thank the associate editors Snezana Lawrence and Benjamin Wardhaugh, and the editorial team – June Barrow-Green, Serafina Cuomo, Howard Emmens, Raymond Flood – for their continued work and support. I would also like to thank the staff at Taylor & Francis, and particularly the production editor, Louise Evans, and the managing editors, Paul Naish and Helen Gray, for their ongoing commitment to the Bulletin. And finally I should like to express my gratitude to the authors and readers of this journal, without whom it could not exist.