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