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