2016 Annual Review
Includes Reports on Society Events and Grant-funded projects for the year end: 2016
Society Events in 2016
- Thomas Dunham Whitaker – his books, his library and his legacy
- William Sterndale Bennett
- Fifty active years beyond fifty An evening with Professor John Fisher
- Science Fair 2016
- Treasures of the Brotherton: A Visit to the New Gallery
- Four Centuries of Natural History Books in the Leeds Library
- William Astbury – The Man in the Monkeynut Coat
- Summer visit to Northumbria
- Sir Gilbert Scott and the Restoration of Ripon Cathedral
- Preserving Britain’s Antarctic Heritage
- Infinite Power and Infinite Being: Spinoza’s God and the Human Soul
- AGM and The Great Yorkshire Election of 1807
Reports received during 2016 on Grants awarded by the Society
- The ‘Drink with a Chimp’ project
- ‘Yorkshire Capabilities: The Yorkshire Landscapes of Capability Brown’
- Crowheart – an interactive drama adventure for years 4, 5 and 6
- Leeds Lieder Festival
- The Peerson Project – recording the Mottects or Grave Chamber Musique (1630)
- Storytelling walks telling the history of Carriageworks Theatre
- Acquisition of Viking Ring for Leeds Museums and Galleries
- Capability Garden Plan for Temple Newsam
- Surprising Lives: a trail through Beckett Street Cemetery
- Firecrest Regulus ignicapilla mounts
- Amahl and the Night Visitors
- The Language of Saris, Launch of the Alchemy Book Collection (ABC)
- & the Inaugural Peter Hirschmann Salon
- Undream’d Shores: musical project exploring Leeds’s industrial heritage & migration
- Victorian Chatelaine: Emily Meynell Ingram of Temple Newsam and Hoar Cross
- A fly-through of the first White Cloth Hall, Leeds, as it looked in 1711.
- Bringing the Aftermath Dislocation Principle Riot Tour 2016 by Jimmy Cauty to Leeds
- Shoddy: a textile / disability arts project in Leeds
- MathsWorldUK Outreach Activities in Leeds:MATRIX conference