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  1. The society publishes a journal, the Transactions of the Philological Society, issued three times a year as well as a monographic series. The first Philological Society, based in London's Fitzroy Square, was founded in 1792 under the patronage of Thomas Collingwood of St Edmund Hall, Oxford. [5]

  2. Apr 2, 2014 · After being kidnapped from West Africa and enslaved in Boston, Phillis Wheatley became the first African American and one of the first women to publish a book of poetry in the colonies in...

  3. PhilSoc organises seven meetings annually. PhilSoc's journal, the Transactions of the Philological Society (TPhS), is published for the Society by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. PhilSoc's book series, the Publications of the Philological Society, is also published for the Society by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

  4. Formed in response to the new comparative philology practised by a handful of scholars on the Continent in the 1820s, the original Philological Society held the first in a series of informal meetings at London University in the early 1830s.

  5. PhilSoc's book series, the Publications of the Philological Society, is also published for the Society by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Since 2000, PhilSoc has organised a biennial student essay competition in honour of the memory of the late RH Robins, former PhilSoc President and Secretary.

  6. "The Philological Society, or London Philological Society, is the oldest learned society in Great Britain dedicated to the study of language. The society was established in 1842 to 'investigate and promote the study and knowledge of the structure, the affinities, and the history of languages'."

  7. Proceedings of the Philological Society began publishing in 1842, and published 6 volumes through 1853. The journal was succeeded by Transactions of the Philological Society, which is still published today.

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