2019 Annual Review
Includes Reports on Society Events and Grant-funded projects for the year end: 2019
Society Events in 2019
- Penny Wainwright The Chas. F. Thackray Company
- Annual Science Fair in the Leeds City Museum
- Steven Burt Leeds in 1819 – foundation year of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society
- Alan Roberts Repairing People – Innovations and Possibilities in Medicine
- Unveiling the Martin and Synge plaque
- Kersten Hall “In Praise of Wool”: Archer Martin, Richard Synge & the blobs that won Leeds a Nobel Prize
- Summer Outing A visit to Sheffield Assay Office and Kelham Island Museum
- Alan Watson The Growth of Large Collaborations in Science 29
- The Bicentenary Conference
- Simon Phillips Why Grass is Green and Blood is Red
- Bicentenary Dinner
- Priestley Lecture: Piers Forster From Climate Science to Climate Action?
- AGM & Dinner and Musical Entertainment
Reports received during 2019 on Grants awarded by the Society
- Women of Westminster: The MPs That Changed Politics
- Left Bank Opera Festival 2018
- Life and Work of Archer Martin and Richard Synge
- Whoever heard of a Black Artist?
- Headingley Festival of Ideas 37
- The Brick Man
- Production of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana 39
- Essays on Musical Exchange between Britain and Europe, 1500–1800
- The Downhearted Drayman
- A History of Clinical Specialties in Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 1767-2018
- Leeds’s Long-finned Pilot Whale