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