New Members Reception & Buffet

The Athenaeum Liverpool Church Alley, Liverpool, United Kingdom

It's once again time to welcome our newest Proprietors in this New Members event, complete with share register signing ceremony, reception drinks & a delicious buffet for those who book. A great way to meet more of your fellow members, guests will be gathering from 6:00pm in the Newsroom with a glass of fizz & ... Read more

Summer Social: 007 Evening (Postponed)

The Athenaeum Liverpool Church Alley, Liverpool, United Kingdom

You may be Proprietor 007 or 495, we have a mission for you all, if you choose to accept. Rendezvous, Newsroom, 18:00. An evening of cocktails and dancing, with music from the movies at our secret location on the heart of the city. Martini on arrival, made with a signature gin of your choice. Summer ... Read more

New Members Welcome Evening – August

The Athenaeum Liverpool Church Alley, Liverpool, United Kingdom

It's once again time to welcome our newest Proprietors in this New Members event, complete with share register signing ceremony, reception drinks & a delicious buffet for those who book. A great way to meet more of your fellow members, guests will be gathering from 6:00pm in the Newsroom with a glass of fizz and ... Read more

Literature Group: Phillipa Holloway

The Athenaeum Liverpool Church Alley, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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

Going on the Ghan – One of the World’s Greatest Train Journeys

The Athenaeum Liverpool Church Alley, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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

Friday Evening Dining – September

The Athenaeum Liverpool Church Alley, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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

Smithdown Social Arts Hub Exhibition

The Athenaeum Liverpool Church Alley, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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

History Group – Geology of Liverpool

The Athenaeum Liverpool Church Alley, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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.

History Group: The History of Geology and Landscape of Liverpool

The Athenaeum Liverpool Church Alley, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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

Shareholders & Slavery

The Athenaeum Liverpool Church Alley, Liverpool, United Kingdom

We are delighted to welcome Laurence Westgaph to the Athenaeum to talk about the institution’s links to the transatlantic trade in enslaved people. Many of our early Proprietors benefitted, directly or indirectly, form this heinous trade. Some of you will remember the fascinating and enlightening presentation Laurence gave over two years ago about this important ... Read more