2013 Annual Review
Includes Reports on Society Events and Grant-funded projects for the year end: 2013
- Legal and Administrative Information
- Report of the Council
- Annual Accounts
- The year’s Finances at a Glance
- List of Presidents
- List of Members
2013 – an important Leeds Centenary
- The Bragg Centenary and the fruition of molecular biology
- The Birthplace of X-ray Crystallography
- The University of Leeds Bragg Centenary Lecture –Quasi-periodic materials
The Harrison Clock in the City Museum
Other Society Events in 2013
- Haiti: heraldry, history and a touch of voodoo
- Through the Cooking Glass – the wonderland of flavours and aromas
- An Evening with Mark Hearld
- The history and present state of the Fountains Abbey Estate
- Sound: Music and Physics
- Summer visit to the Rochdale Pioneers Museum and to Lyme Park
- Natural History-themed Roadshow 31 Military Paintings
- Priestley Lecture: Ben Franklin, Priestley’s American Counterpart
- AGM dinner and talk – Operatic experiences: then and now
Reports on Grants received during 2013
- 9th Leeds Peace Poetry Competition
- Post-Medieval Gold Seal Matrix
- The Papers of Mary Gawthorpe
- John Atkinson Grimshaw’s watercolour ‘A View of Leeds from Woodhouse Ridge’
- Music and the Idea of the North
- Enhancing the virtual home of the Museum of History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Leeds
- Red Book for Armley House – Humphry Repton
- International conference ‘Richard Wagner’s Impact on His World and Ours’
- Portfolio of 9 prints by Karen Babayan
- Roundhouse, Student-Led Journal
- Friends of Leeds Baroque
- Leeds Lieder+ Festival – Education Programme
- Otley Science Festival Family Science Fair
- Young Opera Venture tour of Opera Appetizers
- Yorkshire Live Music Project
- Securing and Developing the Collections of the University of Leeds Zoological Museum
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Grants
The Society makes grants both to individuals and to organisations in support of cultural and scientific activities which increase innovation, outreach and diversity in Leeds and its immediate area. It also supports local museums and galleries and publications relating to the city.
Events
Since 1819, the Phil & Lit has been inviting the people of Leeds to hear from knowledgeable and entertaining speakers. Many are leaders in their field of science, arts or current affairs. We also hold an annual Science Fair and organise occasional visits.