2012 Annual Review
Reports of Events held during 2012
- Can protein-like gels be used to cure back pain?
- Colonel North the “Nitrate King”
- The Genius of Michael Faraday
- The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible
- Bringing the past to life
- The Welfare State: Past and Present
- Female Pharaohs
- Summer Outing to Standedge Canal Tunnel, Red House and Oakwell Hall
- An evening with Professor David Cooper
- Annual Science Fair
- Solar Energy – will we ever mimic the leaf?
- Mike Hoyland’s ‘Pre-Bonfire Night Spectacular’
- Dan Dare and L. Ashwell Wood
- AGM dinner and talk – Diamond Chronicles – India & the West
- The West Yorkshire Hoard
Reports on Grants received during 2012
- Leeds Lieder+ 2011 – Educational Projects
- Roscoe – a unique History
- Building a great Victorian City
- 19th century research on anthrax in West Yorkshire and the continent
- Lotherton Hall Bird Garden Specimens
- Exhibition on the Mexican business activities of Weetman Pearson (Lord Cowdray)
- Exhibition marking the anniversary of the 1911 school strike in Leeds
- Cleaning, re-articulation and mounting of Leeds City Museum’s Moa skeleton
- Yorkshire Youth Choir Spring Residential Course, April 2012
- Wentworth Castle & Georgian Political Gardening: Jacobites, Tories & dissident Whigs
- Carol Ann Duffy – An evening of poetry and music
- Otley Science Festival Fair
- Amy’s Last Dive – a new opera by Cheryl Frances-Hoad
