2015 Annual Review
The Louis Le Prince Archive
- Louis Le Prince and the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society
- The acquisition of the archive
- The digitisation of the archive
Society Events in 2015
- What is life and how did it begin?
- Firework Displays
- Leeds’ Forgotten Modernist: John Clifford Proctor
- An Evening with Timothy Noad, heraldic artist and designer of coins and medals
- John Fowler and his Steam Plough Works
- Anne Clifford’s Great Books
- Summer visit to Lincoln
- Paul Ehrlich and the Invention of Modern Medicine 31
- Where there’s muck, there’s brass
- Aldborough – the Roman town of Isurium Brigantum: New Perspectives
Reports received during 2015 on Grants awarded by the Society
- William Turton: Leeds and Horse Trams (book publication)
- Digitisation of the Leeds Arts Calendar (1947-97)
- Catholic Faith and Practice in England 1779-1992 (book publication)
- Art installation for The Hidden Diamond: The Many Facets of The Leeds Library
- Design Costs of Scarcroft Then and Now: A History of the Village
- Re-articulation of Leeds Museums and Galleries’ Ostrich Skeleton
- Performance of Philip Hayes’s oratorio The Judgment of Hermes 38
- Restoration of the Sibourne model of Waterloo at the
- Royal Armouries
- Otley Science Festival’s Family Science Fair
