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

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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 8^th 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 2^nd December AGM. 6.30 p.m., in University House, University of Leeds

Thursday 19^th November Professor Peter Stockley

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

Thursday 15^th October Anastasia Bellini

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

Thursday 17^th September John Griffiths (Colour Chemistry)

The Pigments of Antiquity

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

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

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

Friday 15^th May David Boswell

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

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

Wednesday 29^th 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 16^th April June Scott
The Milestone Society – its Origin, Aims and Activities (In the Leeds Library, 7.30 p.m.)

Thursday 19^th 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 7^th March Science Fair in the Leeds City Museum

Thursday 5^th 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 19^th February Stanley Trainor

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

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

James Oxley: Banker, Collector and Photographer

Thursday 15^th January John Hobson

Life and Death in Freshwater

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