Events
Our series of lectures aim to provide stimulating talks and discussions on matters of science, art, history, politics, music, literature etc.
Speakers are eminent in their field and speak for 45 minutes to an hour followed by a lively question time. The meetings finish by 9.30 p.m.
OUR 2010-11 PROGRAMME IS:
Monday 4th October 2010
From Seafaring to Saving Lives, a World-Wide History
Professor Phil Gould, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Monday 1st November 2010
Hardman’s Faces and Places
Sara Burdett, Project Curator, Mr Hardman’s House and Photographic Studio
The speaker set up the National Trust's small museum in this portrait and landscape photographer's house and studio in Rodney Street, Liverpool.
Monday 6th December 2010
Justice and the Young
Frances Done, Chair of the Government’s Youth Justice Board
Monday 7th February 2011
Galileo and the Aliens – a History
Dr Stephen Pumfrey, Lancaster University
The speaker will trace humanity's attitude to imagined extra terrestrials from 700 BC to the present day.
Monday 7th March 2011
The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Gaskell
Alan Shelston, of the John Rylands Library, formerly of Manchester University
As well as being a first rate novelist, Mrs Gaskell wrote lively and amusing letters. It will also feature Mrs Gaskell's connections with Warrington, where her huband was for a time the Unitarian minister.
Monday 4th April 2011
Ford Madox Brown, Painter of Society
Rebecca Milner, Curator of Fine Art, Manchester City Gallery
The speaker will be responsible for the major exhibition of Madox Brown's work in Manchester in 2011. His notable works include the murals in the Manchester Town Hall.
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