Join the Literature Group for a fascinating discussion with academic, author and prose specialist Phillipa Holloway, whose debut novel, The Half-life of Snails, has been featured in an international podcast and serialized in a national newspaper. Her short fiction/non-fiction is published in the US, Australia, Africa, Europe and the UK in various publications including Ascent, Bukker ... Read more

The Ghan is one of the world’s great rail journeys, running across Australia, from Darwin in the North to Adelaide in the South across the red centre. The railway was designed to link the Northern Territory to the rest of Australia. Completed in 2004 (120 years after the project started) it now operates as a ... Read more

At least once a month the Club hosts Friday Evening Dining, where the Dining Room is open to members on a Friday Evening. Typically this will take place on the first Friday of the month, though where this is not possible it will be moved to another Friday. The Dining Room will be open from ... Read more

We are delighted to announce the Institution will be collaborating with Smithdown Social Arts Hub in hosting a unique exhibition here at the Club between 12th September and 30th November. Featuring approximately 60 pieces from local artists, the exhibition will be launched at a Private Viewing for Proprietors on 12th September, ahead of a public ... Read more

Join us in the Library Reading Room for another meeting of the History Group. Professor Jim Marshall will speak on The History of the Geology and Landscape of Liverpool. Attendance of this talk is free to charge to members.

The next meeting of our History Group will take place on Tuesday, September 17th, at 2.30pm when Professor Jim Marshall will give us an illustrated talk on The History of the Geology and Landscape of Liverpool.  It has interesting links to the discussion on the talk on the environment given by Professor Chesters in February ... Read more

Proprietors Ron Jones and Paul Burns’s revised and updated iteration of The History of The Athenaeum is ready to launch—and what better way to welcome this publication into the world than with a swinging soirée in the Newsroom? President Edward Ashton and Proprietor Neville Carrick produced a history of the club to celebrate our bicentenary in 1997. ... Read more

All Proprietors are welcome to attend the Athenaeum AGM 2024. Please register your attendance with the Concierge desk.

Join us on Thursday 10th October to welcome Professor George King at their first event as President of the Athenaeum. Expect an enjoyable evening with fizz, food, music and perhaps a short speech or two. Book now with the Concierge desk.