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 the School of Music, University of Leeds at 7.30 p.m. unless otherwise indicated

 

 

                                          

Events in 2010

 

 

 

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 

 

Summer Visit  (Friday 9 July) 

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

 

Thursday 10th June

Alan Gadian                             Geoengineering and Global Warming. 

 

Thursday 20th May                         
Rosalie David                                   The Leeds Mummy.                                                                                                                        

 

Thursday 15th April                         

Joe Botting                                       The Geological Exhibition in Leeds City Museum                   

Saturday 20th  March                       The Annual Science Fair in the City Museum

 

Tuesday 16th  March                       

An evening with Rachel Feldberg – Director of the Ilkley Literature Festival:  dinner, followed by a talk.

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.      

 

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