Friday 11th November, 7:00-7:30pm Winter Wine Tasting – Call my Bluff £39.00 per person. If you have yet to attend one of the Club’s ‘Call My Bluff’ evenings, they come highly recommended! A top class 4 course menu accompanied by 4 wines and a barrel of laughs. A most enjoyable evening.
Sunday 13th November, 12:30-1:00pm Remembrance Sunday Lunch. £25.00. Traditional Sunday lunch following the Civic Remembrance Service at St George’s Plateau. Menu Starter Cream of Vegetable Soup (v) served with a warm bread roll Main Roast Beef & Yorkshire Pudding. Seasonal Vegetables & Roast Potatoes Dessert Apple Pie & Custard Tea & Coffee
John Pinfold on the founder of Aintree racecourse.
Andrew Sankey will tell us the fascinating story of Sir Joseph Banks, a Lincolnshire man, has become known as the Father of Australia for his connections with the country. After travelling around the world with Captain Cook he set up a scientific garden at Kew that became the greatest botanical garden in the world and introduced ... Read more
Thursday 1st December, 12:30-1:00pm Athenaeum Christmas Lunch, £25.00 per person We begin the festive period early at the Club with our Annual Christmas Lunch, always a popular addition to the calendar. Please book early to avoid disappointment.
The December Literature Group Meeting will consist of Christmas Readings.
The Athenaeum Christmas Debate is taking place on the 9th December 2016 at 5:30pm in the Athenaeum Library. The event is a collaboration between the Athenaeum and The University of Liverpool. The motion is "The UK's choice to leave the European Union causes a detriment to Higher Education” and is being proposed by Dr Louise Reynolds of the University ... Read more
Saturday 10th December, 6:30-7:00pm Athenaeum Christmas Ball. Come and join our festive extravaganza! Arrival Drinks, Christmas Carvery buffet, table wine, live entertainment and a raffle on the evening with special prizes – all proceeds to the upkeep of the Library. Dress code; Black Tie (Full festive finery also an option!) Maximum of 10 attendees per ... Read more
Tuesday 13th December, 2015 – “The Wizard of Oz”: Nobody sings “Over the Rainbow” like Judy Garland. Made in 1939, it narrowly lost out to “Gone with the Wind” for best picture. Made in early telecolor, over seventy years later the film is still a delight to adults and children alike. Dorothy from Kansas (Garland) ... Read more
John Tiernan, '"Modernise Everything": Thomas Shelmerdine, Liverpool Architect.'