Material produced by, and relating to, the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies [SPBS] consisting of administrative papers of SPBS, such as correspondence, reports, committee meeting agendas, meeting minutes and other documents ranging in date from the 1960s until the 2010s. The collection also includes various membership lists and information and an incomplete sequence of issues of the 'Bulletin of British Byzantine Studies' which include annual reports, balance sheets and financial statements. Other publications and publications correspondence are also present within the collection. Some parts of the sequences of papers or publications are incomplete.
The Executive Committee of the SPBS also doubles as the British National Committee for the International Byzantine Association, the Association Internationale des Études Byzantines [AEIB]. As such, within the collection there is material which relates both to the National Committee and the AEIB. Records in these series also contain some records of the Centre for Byzantine Studies at the University of Birmingham. These records consist of administrative papers and papers relating to the International Congress of the AEIB, specifically surrounding the 2006 Congress within Oxford but also on Congresses before and after this, and of material relating to the election of an AEIB President in 2010. The British National Committee files contain minutes of Committee meetings and correspondence relating specifically to this committee, which predates the Executive Committee of the SPBS. There are also a few documents relating to the Centre for Byzantine Studies at the University of Birmingham, where there were members of staff who were members of the SPBS. The documents of these organisations range from the late 1970s to the early 2010s