Previous meetings
Some topics in our previous meetings have included:
“Is sport more valuable than music in today’s society.....” Nick Cox
“Charlotte Bronte explained how the eye both sought the truth in mundane experiences and the visionary experience of dreams.....” Professor Dinah Birch
“Technology has revolutionised our access to news, knowledge and opinions, yet quality political journalism is in the doldrums....” Jim Hancock
Lectures 2009-10:
Monday, 5th October 2009 at 7.30 p.m.
Saint Helena; small island, big history
New President’s address by David Barlow, M.Phil.
Monday, 2nd November 2009 at 7.30 p.m.
Poetry, Passion and the Pre-Raphaelites
Michael Howard MA FRSA, Manchester Metropolitan University
Monday 7th December 2009 at 7.30 p.m.
EMMA and ALICE – understanding processes in physics and biology
Dr Susan Smith, Head of Accelerator Physics, Daresbury Laboratory
Monday 1st February 2010 at 7.30 p.m.
The Future for Care
Dame Jo Williams DBE, Care Quality Commissioner, former chief of Mencap
Monday March 1st 2010 at 7.30 p.m.
Annie Horniman, Theatre Pioneer
Professor Viv Gardner, Manchester University
Monday 12th April 2010 AGM at 7.15 followed by speaker at 7.30 p.m.
Affordable Housing
Mike Coates, former Housing Association Chief Executive
Lectures 2008 – 2009
Nick Cox, Principal Clarinet, Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
The Thinking Reed.
Peter Boyd, Collections Manager, Shrewsbury Museum
Charles Darwin, the Shrewsbury Connection.
Professor Frank O’Gorman, University of Manchester
George III, his personality and policies.
Jim Hancock, former Political Editor, BBC North West
Thirty years reporting politics.
Professor Charles Esdaile, University of Liverpool
Rewriting Napoleon.
Professor Dinah Birch, University of Liverpool
The eye of the gazer: what Charlotte Bronte sees?
Lectures 2007 – 2008
Glyn Roberts, Presidential Address
It’s the economy, stupid.
Lord Ron Oxburgh, former Rector of Imperial College, London, past Chairman of Shell UK
Where on earth shall we find enough energy?
Professor Jeremy Tambling, University of Manchester
Poetry makes things happen; what happens in W H Auden?
John Doughty, University of Keele
The trial of Lancashire witches: ‘Not guilty’.
Martin Wright, former Director, The Howard League for Penal Reform
Restoring respect for justice; victims, offenders and the community.
Dr Elspeth Graham, Liverpool John Moores University
Shakespeare: Cockpit in the North.