Architecture belongs to us all David Brazendale’s excellent publication launched last week, “The changing face of A City” features the drawings of James Brierley prior to a period of momentous change. Following the extraordinary growth of the town in the Georgian era, the Victorians swept away public buildings, houses and streets to replace them with ... Read more
The most prestigious event in the Athenaeum Calendar, book you place now as spaces are filling up fast. Full details will follow shortly. This event is black tie. A reception drink is included in the ticket price, wine packages will be available during the evening. Starter Beetroot cured Gravadlax, goats cheese mousse, beetroot puff, walnut ... Read more
Mrs Jutta Hesketh - 'Cecil Day-Lewis' Cecil Day - Lewis CBE, Poet Laureate 1968-1972 Jutta Hesketh will be talking about one of the great authors and poets of the C20th. Day - Lewis (an Anglo -Irish author) also wrote crime stories under the pseudonym of Nicolas Blake. Do join us in the Library on Wednesday ... Read more
New Members Informal Dining: Friday 6 April – Service between 7:00pm and 8:30pm. £25.00 per person We are pleased to announce the next New Members Informal Dining Evening has been scheduled for Friday, 6 April. You can book your place now via the Members’ Area or with reception. New Member’s Informal Dining evenings ... Read more
"Out of Africa II” By Eva Cookey Enjoy a specially prepared West African meal and a presentation on the success of last year’s efforts to provide books for the Groves Library in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Come and see where your books and money went! It’s quite a tale Tuesday 10th April 2018-02-27 at 12.30 in ... Read more
Memoirs of the only NHS Consultant to Command the Trauma Hospital in Afghanistan. Colonel Glynn Evans VR, is a charismatic speaker and has some tales from his time in Camp Bastion. The LMI is a splendid building full of beautiful paintings and artefacts. If you have never visited it, now is your chance. Come early ... Read more
'United 93' - United 93 is a 2006 biographical drama- thriller film written, co-produced and directed by Paul Greengrass, that chronicles events aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked during the September 11 attacks of 2001.
‘James Dickson Innes : 'Beauty Most wild', a talk by Professor Rhiannon Evans MBE Athenaeum, Liverpool, April 20th 2018 2pm. J D Innes was a Welsh painter (1887-1914) and a close friend of Augustus John. In his short life he painted landscapes in Wales and France of extra-ordinary power and originality. Bio Professor Emeritus ... Read more
Further details to Follow in the New Year.
Friday 20 April, 7:00 for 7:30pm, £25.00 per person. We are very fortunate to be joined for dinner on 20th April by Sir John Timpson CBE. He founded the well-known chain of Timpson shops, of which there are now over 1,300, and which provide shoe-repairing, key-cutting and many other services. It has been his ... Read more