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 3432874 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 2013

Thursday 20^th June The Bragg centenary Professor Tony North and Dr Arwen Pearson

July [date tba] Summer visit – Lyme Park & Co-op Museum, Rochdale

Thursday 19^th September A natural history themed Road Show, organised jointly with Leeds City Museum (at the Discovery Centre)

Will run from 6.30 to 8.30 p.m.

Thursday 17^th October Military paintings John Evans

Thursday 31^st October Pre-Bonfire Night lecture and demonstration

Thursday 21^st November The misfolding of proteins Professor Sheena Radford

Wednesday 4^th December AGM and dinner, at Leeds University House

RECENT EVENTS

Thursday 16^th May The physics of music Professor Peter Main

Thursday 18^th April A talk on the Fountains Abbey Estate, by Michael Ridsdale

Saturday 23^rd March Science Fair, at Leeds City Museum, from 11.00 a.m.

Thursday 21^st March “An evening with … Mark Hearld” (a York-based artist)

Thursday 21^st February Through the cooking glass: the wonderland of flavours and aromas Professor John Bradley

Thursday 17^th January Haiti – heraldry, history and a touch of voodoo Malcolm Lobley

2012 :

Wednesday 5^th December AGM & annual dinner; speaker: Nima Poovaya-Smith, Director of Alchemy, a cultural enterprise company based in Yorkshire

Wednesday 28^th November The 2012 Joseph Priestley Lecture: Revealed: the earliest moving colour pictures Michael Harvey (Curator of Cinematography at the National Media Museum, Bradford)

In the Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre, University of Leeds, at 7.30 p.m.

(N.B. This lecture was co-sponsored by the LPLS, the Leeds Library and Mill Hill Chapel)

Thursday 15^th November Dan Dare and L. Ashwell Wood: The Eagle Dr Patrick Eyres

Thursday 1^st November Pre-Bonfire Night Spectacular! An old-style chemistry lecture with plenty of bangs, flashes, fire and smoke (and some real

chemistry thrown in). In Leeds City Museum, at 7.00 p.m. By Mike Hoyland

Thursday 18^th October Solar energy: will we ever mimic the leaf? Prof Robin Perutz

Saturday 6^th October Science Fair, Leeds City Museum

Thursday 4^th October Captain Scott’s triumph – the Glossopteris fossil Prof Jane Francis

Thursday 20^th September An evening with David Cooper, Professor of Music & Technology, University of Leeds

[In University House]

Wednesday 11^th July Summer visit to Red House at Gomersal, Standedge Tunnel and Oakwell Hall at Birstall

Thursday 7^th June Female Pharaohs Dr Joann Fletcher

[To be held in the Leeds City Museum]

Thursday 17^th May The welfare state: past and present Prof Derek Fraser

Thursday 26^th April Facial reconstruction in archaeology Dr Alan Ogden

Thursday 15^th March The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible Prof George Brooke

Thursday 23^rd February The Stoner Colloquium; co-sponsored with the School of Physics & Astronomy of the University of Leeds:

The genius of Michael Faraday Prof Sir John Meurig Thomas

Thursday 16^th February Colonel North, “Nitrate King” Eddie Edmundsen

Thursday 19^th January Can protein-like gels be used to cure back pain? Danielle Miles

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