Society Events in 2020

• Dr Dan Franks The evolution of menopause in resident killer whales
• Professor Mark Harris Hot Topic: Update on the recent outbreak of a novel Coronavirus: Perspectives on the virus and public health
• Dr Christine Holdstock History of dyes from Ancient Egypt to Leeds
• Annual Science Fair in the Leeds City Museum
• Professor Nicola Stonehouse The Search for a Coronavirus Vaccine
• Professor Wendy Webster Europeans in Britain in World War II
• Professor Gareth Williams Edward Jenner – the Man Who Changed the World
• AGM (virtual meeting held via Zoom)

Reports received during 2020 on Grants awarded by the Society

• Rudi Leavor’s Cantata ‘Enosh’ [‘Mankind’]
• Leeds; a Biographical Dictionary
• The Seven Hunters
• Friends of University Art and Music (Leeds) 30th Anniversary Appeal
• The Downy Birch Copse Project
• Leeds Baroque 20th Anniversary Concert Season
• Commission by the Leeds Festival Chorus of a new work by Jonathan Dove
• MathsWorldUK outreach activities
• The Headingley Postie
• Lady Gascoigne’s war medals
• Rodley Nature Reserve – The First Twenty years
• Thomas, Lord Darcy and the Tudor House of Temple Newsam