Race Night Cancelled
Please note the race night scheduled for Thursday 13th March has been cancelled. It will not be rearranged at this time. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
Jack Birley
Liverpool Light Night – The Athenaeum
On Friday 16 May the Athenaeum Library will again be joining the many other, libraries, galleries and museums throughout the country who open their door to the public in ‘Light Night’ The library will be open from 7 pm until 9.30 with guided tours of the treasures and also, in keeping with the years theme … Read more
Here & There In The Library – The Drawings of James Brierley
Here & there in the Library New Series Vol 4. 2nd Quarter As one enters the library a set of shelves house to the right of the door contains a number of boxes of drawings by James Brierley. If you look in them you will find a more than ninety pen and ink drawings, … Read more
The Hardmans of Rodney Street – With Simon Osborne
The Hardmans of Rodney Street With Simon Osborne Thursday 6th March 7:00-7:30pm £25.00 per person E. Chambré Hardman was born in 1898 in Dublin, Ireland. He took his first photographs aged nine and went on to win many photographic competitions in his youth. From the age of eighteen, he spent four years as a regular … Read more
The Library Dinner 27th February
The Library Dinner has now become part of the annual programme and is designed to show our gratitude to those who work so hard to maintain our priceless collection. More than fifty Proprietors and their guests attended this black tie event. After an excellent dinner, the party adjourned to the library where the Chairman of … Read more
Upcoming Events – February into March
Guests this evening will be taken back in time at the 3rd Annual Library dinner as the Institutions old minute books are dusted off and passages read giving an insight of life at the Athenaeum some 200+ years ago. This Black Tie event commences at 7:00-7:30pm and is fully subscribed. Tomorrow evening – Friday February … Read more
Plenty of Interest…. (groups)
It looks to be a very ‘Interesting’ 7 days at the Athenaeum with no less then 4 of our Interest groups meeting next week. On Tuesday 18th February we have two meetings to choose from with the Theatre & Cinema group screening the classic ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ in the Wine Servery at 1:30pm. Running … Read more
Monday 17th February – IT Implementation
Dear Proprietor, RE: Monday 17th February – Installation of New Tills As mentioned in January’s Newsletter we are currently upgrading our IT & Till systems. A date for the installation has been set for Monday 17th February. The club will be open as usual but will be unable to take payments of any kind on … Read more
The Athenaeum Library Dinner – 27/02/14
The Library Dinner Thursday 27th February 7pm-7:30pm £25 per person (Black Tie Dinner) “JUST A MINUTE” This treasure, often described as the best in the north of England is unique in the variety of its stock. Come and learn about its first twenty years in the words of those who founded it and our Athenaeum. … Read more
New Interest Group Created – Science & Medical Group
Following Dr Guy Sutton’s very successful talk just before Christmas those who attended felt that we should introduce a Science and Medical Group. The purpose of this Group would be to hear about and discuss current scientific and medical progress in fields of interest to proprietors. Science is a very broad subject and we would … Read more