Paddy Shennan covered the biggest subjects and talked to the people who dominated Merseyside life between the 1980s and the present day. In an exclusive evening for Athenaeum Proprietors and their guests, Paddy shares his experiences of meeting the great and good (and not so great nor good!) of our city region. Paddy will be ... Read more

When scientists get old many take an interest in the history of their subject and write about the giants on whose shoulders their work rests. More details will follow later but expect the President to introduce the audience to the brave, ingenious and sometimes quirky characters who faced dangers and disasters in their attempts to ... Read more

Our Annual nod to the Scottish Bard, ‘Rabbie Burns’! Join us for bagpipes, haggis, neeps, and tatties as we enjoy four courses and ever-enjoyable speeches at the popular Burns Night gathering. £48 per person, or £60.00 with paired wine flight.

The Library & Archives Group will meet at 11:30am in the Library Reading Room on Thursday 26th January. Big Maps of The Athenaeum collection. Talk will be followed by lunch. Tickets: £15, although attending the meeting without eating lunch afterwards is free.

Dreams of Order The Athenaeum club, Reading Room, Thursday 26th January 2023, 6.30-8.00 pm Join the Liverpool Salon for the second in a series of conversations that take utopia and dystopia as themes for exploring the possibilities of building other, and better, societies, while reflecting on the shortcomings of our own. Writing in 1939, E.H. ... Read more

The next in the classic film series will take place on Thursday 26th January. Join us for supper at 7:00pm ahead of the showing of ‘Murder Most Foul’ with George Pollock, in the Wine Servery. Treats, of course, will be served in the interval! Tickets: £15pp (including supper).

Tuesday 7th February 2023 - Library Reading Room Diana Lane will be discussing Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, was published in 1936 and subsequently made into a film in 1939. The book has been an American bestseller ever since and in 2014 a Harris poll found it to be the second ... Read more

Jayne Moran will be giving an illustrated presentation on the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, Liverpool, which opened in June 2020 and is located next to the New Royal Liverpool Hospital. The Centre delivers a wide range of highly-specialist cancer care including pioneering chemotherapy, immunotherapy, gene therapy, haemato-oncology and radiotherapy. The Centre is linked to a charitable ... Read more

Join us and guest speaker Bernadette Hamilton for a talk on Vincent Van Gogh. Attendance is free of charge.