The Louis Le Prince Archive 

• Louis Le Prince and the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society
• The acquisition of the archive
• The digitisation of the archive

Society Events in 2015 

• What is life and how did it begin?
• Firework Displays
• Leeds’ Forgotten Modernist: John Clifford Proctor
• An Evening with Timothy Noad, heraldic artist and designer of coins and medals
• John Fowler and his Steam Plough Works
• Anne Clifford’s Great Books
• Summer visit to Lincoln
• Paul Ehrlich and the Invention of Modern Medicine 31 
• Where there’s muck, there’s brass
• Aldborough – the Roman town of Isurium Brigantum: New Perspectives

Reports received during 2015 on Grants awarded by the Society 

• William Turton: Leeds and Horse Trams (book publication)
• Digitisation of the Leeds Arts Calendar (1947-97)
• Catholic Faith and Practice in England 1779-1992 (book publication) 
• Art installation for The Hidden Diamond: The Many Facets of The Leeds Library
• Design Costs of Scarcroft Then and Now: A History of the Village 
• Re-articulation of Leeds Museums and Galleries’ Ostrich Skeleton
• Performance of Philip Hayes’s oratorio The Judgment of Hermes 38 
• Restoration of the Sibourne model of Waterloo at the 
• Royal Armouries 
• Otley Science Festival’s Family Science Fair