Reports of Events held during 2012

• Can protein-like gels be used to cure back pain?
• Colonel North the “Nitrate King”
• The Genius of Michael Faraday
• The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible
• Bringing the past to life
• The Welfare State: Past and Present
• Female Pharaohs
• Summer Outing to Standedge Canal Tunnel, Red House and Oakwell Hall
• An evening with Professor David Cooper
• Annual Science Fair
• Solar Energy – will we ever mimic the leaf?
• Mike Hoyland’s ‘Pre-Bonfire Night Spectacular’
• Dan Dare and L. Ashwell Wood
• AGM dinner and talk – Diamond Chronicles – India & the West
• The West Yorkshire Hoard

Reports on Grants received during 2012

• Leeds Lieder+ 2011 – Educational Projects
• Roscoe – a unique History
• Building a great Victorian City
• 19th century research on anthrax in West Yorkshire and the continent
• Lotherton Hall Bird Garden Specimens
• Exhibition on the Mexican business activities of Weetman Pearson (Lord Cowdray)
• Exhibition marking the anniversary of the 1911 school strike in Leeds
• Cleaning, re-articulation and mounting of Leeds City Museum’s Moa skeleton
• Yorkshire Youth Choir Spring Residential Course, April 2012
• Wentworth Castle & Georgian Political Gardening: Jacobites, Tories & dissident Whigs
• Carol Ann Duffy – An evening of poetry and music
• Otley Science Festival Fair
• Amy’s Last Dive – a new opera by Cheryl Frances-Hoad