The Athenaeum, a historic and emblematic city centre venue, and ArtsGroupie CIC, a prominent Liverpool arts organisation, have teamed up to provide monthly walking tours and events starting Summer 2022.   Join us at the Liverpool Pier Head, outside the Cunard Building (the River Mersey side), 10.30am 30th July, as we explore Liverpool's historic links ... Read more

The Athenaeum, a historic and emblematic city centre venue, and ArtsGroupie CIC, a prominent Liverpool arts organisation, have teamed up to provide monthly walking tours and events starting Summer 2022.   Travel back to Victorian Liverpool and discover key locations inhabited by local heroine Catherine “Kitty” Wilkinson. Liverpudlian legend, Kitty, was an Irish immigrant who ... Read more

We remember Proprietor and former Lord Mayor of the city Frank Doran MBE, at a memorial lunch to celebrate his life and contribution to the Liverpool City Region. Join us on Tuesday 27th September from 12:00pm in the Newsroom for a reception drink ahead of the call for lunch at 12:30pm. Included within the ticket ... Read more

What’s My Line? For the October meeting we are asking members to come armed with a favourite quotation or two. Many thanks for the idea to Mike Shankland, who explains the concept: I love the quote from Act 3 of The Merchant of Venice:   "Here are a few of the unpleasantest words That ever ... Read more

We are delighted to announce The Sir David Maddison Opera Prize 2022 will be taking place on Saturday 22 October 2022, in association with The Royal Northern College of Music. Six Opera stars of the future will perform for Members and guests with the winner being awarded The Sir David Maddison Opera Prize 2022 and ... Read more

The next classic film showing is Michael Curtiz’s ‘Captain Blood’ (1935). Based on Rafael Sabatini’s novel of the same name, the story follows an imprisoned doctor and his fellow     prisoners who escape their cruel island captivity and become   pirates in the West Indies. All screenings will be  preceded by a one-course supper and have an ... Read more

On the last Friday of the month we welcome new Proprietors as they sign the historic Share Register. A drinks reception will take place in the Reading Room from 6:00pm ahead of the signing at 6:30pm. A curry buffet will follow in the Newsroom from 7:00pm. Open to all members, a great opportunity to meet ... Read more

Biodiversity is all around us, sometimes closer than you think. We are in a ‘biodiversity crisis’ and losing biodiversity at a rate comparable to the past mass extinctions of the past. In this talk Dr Richard Lane OBE examines why we should take this crisis so seriously from biodiversity’s significant impact on our health and ... Read more