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

 

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

 

Thursday 19th 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 17th October                         Military paintings        John Evans

 

Thursday 31st October                          Pre-Bonfire Night lecture and demonstration                                        

 

Thursday 21st November                      The misfolding of proteins      Professor Sheena Radford

 

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

 

 

RECENT EVENTS

 

Thursday 16th May                               The physics of music               Professor Peter Main

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

2012 :

 

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

 

Wednesday 28th 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 15th November                      Dan Dare and L. Ashwell Wood: The Eagle   Dr Patrick Eyres

Thursday 1st 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 18th October                         Solar energy: will we ever mimic the leaf?     Prof Robin Perutz

Saturday 6th October                            Science Fair,  Leeds City Museum

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

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

                                                            [In University House]

 

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

                                                             

 

Thursday 7th June                     Female Pharaohs                                            Dr Joann Fletcher

                                                            [To be held in the Leeds City Museum]

 

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

 

Thursday 26th April                   Facial reconstruction in archaeology             Dr Alan Ogden   

 

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

 

Thursday 23rd 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 16th February            Colonel North, “Nitrate King”                      Eddie Edmundsen 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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