The Leeds Philosophical
and Literary Society
Registered Charity  224084   Company Registered in England  177204   

Registered Office:  c/o Leeds City Museum, Cookridge Street, Leeds LS2 8BH


FUTURE  EVENTS 

N.B.  The dates and times of some events may have to be changed;  please contact the Hon. Secretary, Dr. John Lydon (0113 3433036 or 0113 2785596) to confirm the details shown below. 

Lectures will be held in Leeds City Museum at 7.30 p.m. unless otherwise indicated

 

                                          

Events in 2010

 

Tuesday 16th  March                   

An evening with Rachel Feldberg – Director of the Ilkley Literature Festival:  dinner (in University House, 6.30 p.m.), followed by a talk.

Saturday 20th  March                  

                                                        The Annual Science Fair in the City Museum

 

Thursday 15th April                      

Joe Botting                                       The Geological Exhibition in Leeds City Museum

Thursday 20th May                      
Rosalie David                                   The Leeds Mummy

June (date to be announced)

Alan Gadian                                     Geoengineering and Global Warming

 

Summer Visit  (date to be announced) 

  to the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society, plus other attractions in  
  Newcastle

 

 

Thursday 16th September

Joyce Hill                                         The Staffordshire Hoard                

Thursday  21st October

John Thorp (City Architect)              New Buildings in Leeds

Thursday 4th November
Mike Hoyland                                  The Annual Fireworks Lecture (venue to be

                                                        arranged)

 

Thursday 18th November
Matthew Roberts                             Civic Politics of Leeds in the 19th Century.

 

Wednesday 8th December (probably!)

The AGM and dinner, in University House

 

There will also be a one day meeting concerned with the History of the LPLS  (date to be announced).

 

 

 

RECENT EVENTS 

 

Thursday 18th February 

Victoria Burley                                 Food, Health and Cancer. 

 

Thursday 21st January                     

Tom Steele                               The History of the Swarthmore Educational Centre

(2009)

 

Wednesday 2nd  December       AGM.  6.30 p.m., in University House, University of Leeds

 

Thursday 19th November          Professor Peter Stockley         

Bionanotechnology: Using Nature to help exploit the Room at the Bottom

 

Thursday 15th October             Anastasia Bellini           

Sergei Taneyev (1856-1915): The Missing Link in Nineteenth-Century Russian Music        

 

Thursday 17th September          John Griffiths    (Colour Chemistry)      

The Pigments of Antiquity

Thursday 9th July                      Summer Visit to Kiplin Hall and Cowton.   Guide:  Neil Reed

Thursday 18th June                  
Mark Steadman (Leeds University) and Clare Stringer (Leeds Museums and Galleries)

Leeds's Dodo: How a Yorkshire Engineer Unearthed a Lost Species

 

Friday 15th May                       David Boswell 

The work of the Architects Bedford and Kitson.       Organised jointly with the Victorian Society.      

Saturday 16th May, starting at 10.00.    Coach tour of their notable buildings (with the Victorian Society).

 

Wednesday 29th April               David Bedding

The new A1 steam locomotive.                       (Sponsored jointly by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds;  in the Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre, University of Leeds, 7.30 p.m.)

 

Thursday 16th April                   June Scott       
The Milestone Society – its Origin, Aims and Activities         (In the Leeds Library, 7.30 p.m.)

 

Thursday 19th March                Janet Douglas

A lasting moment: the photographs of Marc Riboud.            Followed by a free viewing of the photographs in the Special Exhibitions Gallery

 

Saturday 7th March                  Science Fair in the Leeds City Museum

 

Thursday 5th March                  Christopher Webster

R. D. Chantrell and the Architecture of the Lost Generation            (Joint lecture with the
Leeds Civic Trust, at 6 p.m. in the City Museum)

 

Thursday 19th February            Stanley Trainor            

A Demonstration of Water Colour Technique            (In the University of Leeds, Chemistry Lecture Theatre D)

 

Thursday 29th January   James Lomax (Curator of Decorative Arts – Temple Newsam)

James Oxley:  Banker, Collector and Photographer

 

Thursday 15th January               John Hobson

Life and Death in Freshwater

 

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