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.
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
‘Practical Utopias’ is the latest in a series that takes the theme of utopia as a way of exploring possibilities of building other, better, societies while reflecting on the shortcomings of our own. Join Kevin Bean, Heather Alcock and Mick Owens to talk about three idiosyncratic practical utopias: the Chartists’ Land Plan, Port Sunlight and ... Read more