2017 Annual Review
Includes Reports on Society Events and Grant-funded projects for the year end: 2017
Society Events in 2017
- Lucy Moore Women in Leeds 1914-1918
- John McGoldrick Armley Mills
- An evening with Professor Colin Mellors
- Modernising Local Government The Devolution Agenda
- Annual Science Fair in Leeds City Museum
- Patrick Eyres Yorkshire Capabilities Portrayed: Portraits by Georgian artists
- of the Yorkshire landscapes designed by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown
- James Lomax Emily Meynell Ingram of Temple Newsam and Hoar Cross
- Professor Matthew Evans Air Quality: A Silent Killer
- Summer outing: visits to Rolls Royce Heritage Centre and Kedleston Hall, in Derby
- David Sellers William Gascoigne (1612-44) Leeds Astronomer:
- How a Spider put Leeds at the forefront of the Scientific Revolution
- Eric Blair The Science of three-person babies
- Annual Priestley Lecture: Jonathan Powers Erasmus Darwin
- AGM and Bobbie Millar Quarry Arts
Reports received during 2017 on Grants awarded by the Society
- Beaver taxidermy
- John Duggan workshop programme – Diocese of Leeds Schools Singing Programme
- The Choral Works of Hans Gál 1890–1987: Performances and a Recording
- The Remember Oluwale Writing Prize
- Creative writing sessions with people with autism
- Leeds Peace Poetry competition 2016
- Professor Barker’s Peruvian Expedition film of 1926
- Gold Signet Ring
- Leeds Baroque website
- Essays for The Tetley’s exhibition programme
- Northern Short Story Festival
- Horsforth Town Council: public education for Dementia Awareness week
- The Cave: a Stoneage Mystery
- Thomas Arne’s Alfred