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
Theatre Group Visit—The Beekeeper of Aleppo Saturday 4th March, 2:30pm at the Playhouse Theatre Due to the proximity of the date no group bookings discounts are available. Please book individually at the Box Office and perhaps meet your friends for a light lunch at the club, or refreshments after. . . The theatre group is ... Read more
In 1990 Ruby Porter, MBE visited Sreepur Village, which is the only project in Bangladesh offering safe haven and livelihood training to single mothers and their children. Ruby was shocked by the primitive accommodation and conditions of the village where there were 600 children and 100 destitute mothers. At her own expense, she returned with ... Read more
Tuesday 7th March - Library Reading Room Following last month's discussion of Gone with the Wind, Linda Iley will share with us the results of her research into the real-life model for Margaret Mitchell's anti-hero, the cynical but charming Civil War profiteer and scoundrel Rhett Butler. Attendance is free of charge.