2020 Annual Review
Includes Reports on Society Events and Grant-funded projects for the year end: 2020
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