Avon where she is, among other things, Chairman of The Friends of the Music committee at the Holy Trinity church and a trustee of The Friends of Shakespeare’s Church.Medea by Frederick Sandys. Source: Birmingham Museums Trust A 51
Supertrams & Metros: Key To Urban Regeneration Or Vanity Projects? WPMraeodnfencshesesodsrtaeRyri2cCh4otanhrdfFeKreebnnroucwearlCeyse2n0t1re67pmTransport plays a critical role in improving urban connectivity and can enhance competitiveness. Modern urban light rail systems (Supertrams like Manchester’s Metrolink, and Light Metros like London Docklands DLR) are often good at extending labour market catchment areas; stimulating inward investment; unlocking inaccessible sites; enabling the rationalisation of production, distribution and land use; and triggering fresh growth. This global research project also examines how transport induced increases in property and land value can be captured; the role of transit-oriented development; how to measure the costs and benefits of transport investment; and impacts on city image and quality. Geography matters and urban regeneration depends on more than just transport investment.Professor Richard Knowles BA PhD FRGS - Researcher, Lecturer, Editor and Publisher and Docklands Light Railway (DLR)52 SP
Professor Richard Knowleslocal politician. He is married with 2 children and 3grandchildren and lives in Greenfield, Oldham.Born and raised in Sheffield, Professor Knowles was educated at Abbeydale Boys Grammar School. Heattained a BA Honours Degree and a PhD in Geographyat Newcastle University. He then went on to becomea Geography Lecturer at Birmingham University,followed by Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader andProfessor positions at Salford University. Prof Knowleshas also worked at universities in Norway, Denmark,Canada and Abu Dhabi and for the Open University.He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society andholds Honours from UK, USA and Hong Kong. Heundertakes research in Transport Geography and was afounding Editor of the Journal of Transport Geography(1993-2012). He has authored numerous academicresearch papers, books, reports and conference papers.In addition to his academic career, Professor Knowleshas been a local councillor for over 35 years and isthe former Council Leader and Mayor for OldhamBorough Council. 53
HHueamltahnciatraeriiannEmergenciesHDTUhnruiAvrsemdrsyaiytHy3uorgdf hMMesaanrcchhe2s0te1r67pm ow do we provide healthcare for populations affected by humanitarian emergencies? Whatinfrastructure is needed to strengthen local healthcapacity and assist Foreign Medical Teams providingemergency aid? What other factors – such as culture,politics, logistics, and anthropology – influence theeffectiveness of humanitarian response? Drawing onexamples from post‐conflict in Northern Sri Lanka,Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, the West AfricaEbola outbreak and the recent Nepal earthquake, DrHughes will explore the complexities, challenges andapproaches to delivering healthcare during and in theaftermath of humanitarian emergencies.This lecture will provide an insight into the world of healthcare in humanitarian emergencies,highlighting the multiple factors affecting this.Attendees will be provided with an opportunity toconsider career pathways available for those interestedin working in health, logistics and the humanitarianenvironment. Dr Amy Hughes is a Clinical Academic Lecturer in Emergency Response at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) at The University of Manchester. She is engaged heavily in the development of the UK International Emergency Trauma and Medical Registers ‐ established to draw together clinicians interested in responding as part of a medical/trauma team to sudden onset disasters and Dr Amy Hughes YP54
humanitarian emergencies. The registers are hostedby UK-Med and funded by the Department forInternational Development. The aim of the registersis to provide a structured approach to the trainingand deployment of teams composed of a variety ofhealth care workers in order to ensure a governed,needs-based, appropriate and co-ordinated response.Combined with the lectureship Amy is completing aPhD exploring the role of foreign medical teams insudden onset disasters and, along with colleagues,contributes to the Foreign Medical Team WorkingGroup, WHO.In her work at the HCRI, she is a course convenor for the Emergency Humanitarian Assistance moduleand Global Health Diploma. Combining academiawith clinical work, Amy is also an emergency medicineclinician in Derriford Hospital, Plymouth. Previousclinical work includes: London’s Air Ambulance; Kent,Surrey Sussex Helicopter Emergency Medical Service(HEMS) working as part of a pre-hospital care team;a seven month mission with Médecins Sans Frontièresin northern Sri Lanka establishing and running anemergency unit in a resource- constrained post conflictenvironment; retrieval registrar with Careflight andThe Royal Flying Doctors, Australia. Amy completedthe Diploma of Tropical Medicine in 2006 and has aEuropean Masters in Disaster Medicine. Her particularinterest lies in improving the training and knowledgefor health care professionals wishing to work in complexhumanitarian environments..The University of Manchester and the Manchester Literary and Philosophical society have cometogether in partnership with the shared aim of inspiringand educating young people in the North West throughthis inaugural lecture by Dr Amy Hughes.Exact location of the lecture will be announced closerto the date on our website and in an e-Bulletin. 55
The Future ofMuseums in the UKMDTRuoreyNsadlicaNkyoM8rtthehreMrrinmarCacnhol2le0g1e6of Music 7pm any years ago, the image of museums was – to quote the title of a report of the 1980s – ‘dusty places with different kinds of stuff ’. Now, for the most part, this image has been transformed through a combination of increased investment (particularly through the Heritage Lottery Fund), and a new generation of staff trained in the skills of learning, interpretation, communication and visitor care. As a result, the top visitor attractions in the country are all museums, and even in a climate of recession, museums are becoming ever more popular.In this lecture, Nick Merriman will examine the ways in which museums are playing major roles in tourism, economic development, education, health and well-being, and even in international diplomacy and partnerships. He will look at future prospects including digital developments, the role of museums in addressing major issues such as climate change and migration, and some of the challenges around contestation of ownership, sales of collections and collecting for the future.He will draw on a wide number of examples, including a focus on Manchester and the prospects of ‘the Northern powerhouse’. He will suggest that museums have survived and prospered for several centuries because of their ability to adapt to circumstances, and that their future incarnation will be as safe spaces for intercultural understanding, a forum rather than a temple, with collections at their heart.Nick Merriman was appointed as Director of the Manchester Museum in March 2006. Since then he has focused its mission on promoting understanding between cultures and working towards a sustainable world and has overseen the56 C
Dr Nick Merrimanrefurbishment of most of the Museum’s permanentgalleries. This, together with a major programme ofpublic engagement, has led to a doubling of the Museum’svisitor numbers to 400,000 a year.Prior to moving to Manchester, Nick Merriman was Director of Museums & Collections, and Readerin Museum Studies, at University College London, for8 years. During this time, he developed new coursesin museum and heritage studies, and created a newuniversity-wide museum service. From 2004-2006he was a part time Fellow on the Clore LeadershipProgramme, undertaking a bespoke scheme of trainingand development in cultural leadership.Nick began his career at the Museum of London in 1986, as Curator of Prehistory and subsequentlyHead of the Department of Early London History andCollections. While there, he led a pioneering projectcalled ‘The Peopling of London’ which told the storyof the capital’s cultural diversity from ancient timesto the present. He studied archaeology at CambridgeUniversity, and his PhD, on widening participation inmuseums, was published as ‘Beyond The Glass Case’.He has published widely on museum studies topics,was Chair of the International Council of Museums(UK) from 2001-2004, President of the Council forBritish Archaeology from 2005-2008, Chair of theUniversity Museums Group from 2009-13, Convenorof the Museums Association’s Ethics Committee 2008 -14 and is currently Chair of the Collections Trust. C 57
John Ruskin: a Life inPictures MWPreaodnfencshesesodsrtaeSyrte1Dp6ehtnhetnMalWaEridclduhmc2a0atin1o6n Centre 7pmThe life and work of John Ruskin, the greatest polymath of the Victorian era, will be outlined with illustrations of the art and architecture which most absorbed him. His interest in the Old Masters and friendship and defence of Turner was followed by studies of architecture and painting in northern Italian cities, culminating in his intense interest in Venetian Gothic. He supported the early work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and later became a mentor and patron of Edward Burne-Jones. Ruskin considered his own drawings and watercolours to be essentially only memoranda for himself, depictions of buildings and landscape which are however the equal of distinguished painters. Those in the collection of the Ruskin Library and at Brantwood, Coniston, where Ruskin mainly spent the last thirty years of his life, will reveal his skills. John Ruskin by William Jeffrey, 185658 A
“View of Amalfi” by John Ruskin (1844) from “Ruskin, Turner and the pre-Raphaelites”, by Robert Hewison, 2000Stephen Wildman is the founding Director of the Ruskin Library, established at Lancaster Universityin 1996, where he was awarded a personal Professorshipin the History of Art in 2008. A Cambridge graduate,he was formerly Curator of Prints and Drawingsat Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. He haspublished widely on British Watercolour, Ruskin andthe Pre-Raphaelites, the Birmingham School and theearly 20th century etching revival.Professor Stephen Wildman 59 A
IMnoudnedlalitniognFflrooomd Streetto Continental Scales MTPuraoenfsecdshaseyosr5tePthraDuAlepBnraitlate2ls0E1d6ucation Centre 7pmIn recent years, developments in numerical algorithms, parallel computing and remotely sensed data capture have allowed an unprecedented increase in the complexity of surface water routing models. In this lecture Professor Paul Bates of the University of Bristol will discuss these advances and show how new models allow flood inundation modelling of urban areas down to 10cm resolution and, with larger grid sizes, of the whole globe. This science is transforming our ability to manage floods, finance insurance schemes and respond to humanitarian disasters.Paul obtained a BSc in Geography from Southampton University in 1989, and a PhD from the University of Bristol in 1992 working with Professor Malcolm Anderson. His PhD research analysed finite element methods for modelling flood flows, a theme he continued during postdoctoral 2011 floods in Thailand60 S&T
Professor Paul Batesresearch funded by the US Army Corps of Engineers,the UK Natural Environment Research Council and theLaboratoire Saint Venant in Paris where he worked withJean-Michel Hervouet. In 1995 he was appointed toa Lectureship in Physical Geography at the Universityof Bristol. In August 2013 he was appointed Head ofthe School of Geographical Sciences.Paul is a hydrologist by background, but has widespread research interests in risk, resilience,uncertainty, governance and decision-making inrelation to natural hazards and global water issues.Paul’s main science contribution has been to improvethe prediction of flood inundation through thedevelopment of new computer models, the use ofdata from new airborne, satellite and ground sensorsand through the better characterization of risk anduncertainty. S&T 61
An Introductionto Non-verbalCommunication inHuman Interaction TRDuooeyrsaodltahNyeoa1r2KthtahezrAonupCnriiolsl2le0g1e6of Music 7pmDorothea has had a varied career working in business and academic environments, both in the UK and in Greece (Athens and Crete). She established and ran an English Language School and worked for many years with the British Council in Athens teaching English as a Foreign Language to Greek adults and English for Specific Purposes to Greek civil servants. In Crete she taught English for legal and medical purposes to groups of lawyers and doctors. Cross-cultural non-verbal communication was an integral part of these language courses. Scientists have identified 21 distinct facial expressions to express emotions. Source: The Independent (2014)62 SP
On returning to the UK Dorothea worked at the University of Sheffield as a tutor on a widerange of courses including Linguistics, Cross-culturalCommunication and Literacy Skills, Non-verbalCommunication and Intercultural Awareness toboth English and visiting foreign students, as well asdelivering workshops on Interpersonal CommunicationSkills, Time Management, Presentation Skills and otherareas of business.In her talk Dorothea will explore and discuss with theaudience :What is meant by non- verbal communication and how much of our communication is non-verbal;how and when we acquire these skills of non-verbalcommunication and whether these skills vary accordingto different factors such as age, gender and othercircumstances; that we are constantly communicatingin the presence of other people even though we arenot speaking, and think we are not communicating;the role of non-verbal communication in the totalcommunication system and why it is important.Dorothea Kazounis 63 SP
Christopher Isherwoodand the Bradshaws ofMarple Hall MTPhraounfrecsshdseaosyrteA2r1nCsdtorAenpwferriBlei2ns0wc1ee6lCl entre 7pmThe writer Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) is best known for his novels about Berlin, but many people are unaware that his family owned Marple Hall in Cheshire. His full name was Christopher William Bradshaw-Isherwood, and he was descended from John Bradshaw, President of the High Court of Justice, and one of the regicides who signed the death warrant of King Charles I. Christopher Isherwood (left) and John Bradshaw (right)Andrew Biswell, a literary critic and biographer, aims to place Isherwood in the context of his strong connections with the north-west of England. After he left England in 1939 and became a US citizen, Isherwood rejected much of his English background, yet he returned to the subject of his family towards the end of his life, when he wrote a remarkable series of autobiographical books. This lively talk, illustrated by photographs of the people and places to which it refers, draws on Isherwood’s writings, libellous poems about John Bradshaw, and documents by other family members.64 A
Professor Andrew BiswellAndrew Biswell is Professor of Modern Literature in the English Department at ManchesterMetropolitan University, and the Director of theInternational Anthony Burgess Foundation. Hisacademic work includes book publications, publicexhibitions, broadcasting for television and radio,writing articles for newspapers and literary journals,and electronic publication of research materials. Heis currently writing a book about British writers ofthe 1930s. His books include The Real Life of AnthonyBurgess (Picador) and the print and digital editionsof A Clockwork Orange: The Restored Text (PenguinClassics).Christopher Isherwood 65 A
BAirorfouweslst:ofrPoimlotCPulralnyts PMMroaonnfecdshaseyosr2teG5rtihCdeAoonpnfreiDrle2anv0ci1ee6sCentre 7pmComplex sugars, in the form of polysaccharides provide the structure for our lives: the cell wall of diverse organisms, the basis for the strength of wood, insect and crustacean shells. The bonds linking the sugars together are notoriously difficult to break but Nature has evolved complex consortia of enzymes, harnessing different reaction chemistry, to harness these chemicals.If waste plant biomass is ever to be a credible fuel source, as policymakers would like, then industry too must grasp the intricacies of enzyme mechanism and diversity to produce industrial processes that yield biofuels efficiently. Chemical Compound66 S&T
In this lecture the speaker will highlight new enzyme discoveries and their chemistry and discuss recentdevelopments in industrial biofuels plants worldwide.Gideon Davies received his PhD from the University of Bristol in 1990 with subsequent postdoctoralwork at EMBL Hamburg, CNRS Grenoble and theUniversity of British Columbia. He is currently aProfessor of Biological Chemistry at the University ofYork. His area of expertise is the three-dimensionalstructure and reaction mechanism of enzymes thatsynthesise, modify and degrade carbohydrates. Hewas elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2010 anda Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2014. Professor Gideon Davies S&T 67
The Story ofManchester’s Taj Mahal- stranger than fiction RETuloaeyisnadleaNGyor1ri0ftfhtihtehrMsn aCyo2ll0e1g6e of Music 7pmElaine will share her personal story and the trials and tribulations involved in saving Gorton Monastery from ruin. The story will take you on a journey from the Franciscans’ arrival in Gorton in 1861, through the days when Pugin’s architectural masterpiece was nearly lost forever and will cover the last 20 years of magic, miracles and campaigning which has spectacularly saved and restored the monastery to its present glory . This remarkable story will give you a unique insight into the real story of Manchester’s Modern Day Monastery and the strange coincidences along the way. Elaine GriffithsElaine is Chief Executive of the Monastery of St Francis and Gorton Trust and has been involved with Gorton Monastery since the inception of the Monastery Trust in 1996. The Trust was68 SP
When the Monastery was derelict. Photo source: themonastery.co.ukestablished as a building preservation trust to findnew sustainable uses for Gorton Monastery and tosupport wider community work in Gorton. Soon after,Elaine relinquished her career as a marketing executivewithin the food industry to champion the cause ofthe rescue and regeneration of the Monastery. Aftermany years’ struggle and the successful regenerationof the Monastery, her contribution to the North Westwas recognized in 2007 by the award of an MBE forservices to heritage. Image of an event being held at the restored Monastery Photo source: east-manchester.com SP 69
the McCURDY lecture Shale Gas in the UK g-ewohloagti,swt’hs epreersapnedcthiovwe : a MMProaonnfecdshaseyosr1teK6rtehDviMennaTtyaaly2El0od1ru6cation Centre 7pm There has been a major push by the UK government for the development of shale gas production in the UK, driven by the success in the USA and the politically-desirable need for a secure domestic supply of natural gas. However, whilst there is clear evidence for the presence of shale gas in the UK, there is much uncertainty about the volume of shale gas reserves, the complexities of the UK geology, and also the potential surface footprint of any large- scale extraction. This talk will explain what shale gas is, where it is possibly present in the UK, the technical and environmental challenges presented by Simplified diagram of Shale Gas Extraction 70 S&T
Professor Kevin Taylorits extraction, and the economics of extraction. Is theproduction of shale gas in the UK a realistic possibilityor a pipe-dream?Professor Kevin Taylor is a geoscientist at the School of Earth, Atmospheric and EnvironmentalSciences, University of Manchester. He has over 25years’ experience in characterizing the geologicalnature of oil and gas reservoirs and reservoiranalogues, with a particular interest in their physicaland chemical variability at spatial scales ranging fromsub-micrometres to several kilometres. He currentlycoordinates research on the characteristics and reservoirquality of shale gas and shale oil reservoirs both in theUK and globally, with a focus on porosity, permeabilityand predicting responses to hydraulic fracturing. 71
Silver Spoons and Golden Professor Hillel SteinerGanednDeisst:riTbaulteivnet JDusiftfiecerentials PTRhroouyfareslsdsNaooyrrH2th6itelhlrenlMSCtaeoyilnl2ee0gr1e6of Music 7pmAdvances in the bio-medical sciences have fostered a growing general awareness of the fact that much interpersonal inequality is due to persons’ unequal genetic endowments: economic inequalities, arising from health and skill differentials, are thereby often attributable to genetic inequality. This talk addresses the questions of whether - and if so, how - the demands of distributive justice can be brought to bear on such inequalities. In particular, it explores the broad redistributive policy differences that would justly be required as responses to the genetic revolution’s emerging prospect of human genomes becoming capable of being extensively engineered.Hillel Steiner is Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Manchester and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of An Essay on Rights (1994) and co-author of A Debate Over Rights: Philosophical Enquiries (with Matthew72 SP
Kramer and Nigel Simmonds, 1998). He is also co-editor of Freedom and Trade (with Geraint Parry,1998), The Origins of Left-Libertarianism: An Anthologyof Historical Writings, and Left-Libertarianism andIts Critics: The Contemporary Debate (with PeterVallentyne, 2000), and of Freedom: A PhilosophicalAnthology (with Ian Carter and Matthew Kramer,2007). His current research concerns the concept of ‘thejust price’, and the application of libertarian principlesto global and genetic inequalities. SP 73
Hidden Gems of Cheshire:Daresbury, its environsand the Catalyst ScienceDiscovery Centre andMuseumCDTCueoaenrusetndrscebaiyul&rS7yuMthmaunJmsudeneuCerma2Vt0a9isl1.y0i6ts0taSmcie-n5c.3e0Dpmiscovery he county of Cheshire is a place of great contrast,Tparticularly further downstream from the conurbation of Manchester where the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal make their way down to Liverpool through the Runcorn Gap. Rural villages, where many of the red sandstone buildings are listed, nestle alongside the great industrial complexes and early canals of the 19th and 20th centuries which were the ‘Northern Powerhouses’ of their time. It is here that the new Mersey Crossing - scheduled to open in 2017 - is being built. On this visit you will have the opportunity to see this contrast as it is today and learn something about its history. Vice-President Dr Diana Leitch, who originates from this area, will be doing a commentary as we drive along.We will leave from the perimeter of All Saints Park at 9.15am by coach, picking up at East Didsbury Metro Station (parking available) at 9.30am, arriving at Daresbury Church and the Lewis Carroll Visitor Centre around 10am.While in Daresbury you will be able to see the 12th century All Saints Church, scene of several BBC Songs of Praise, and the place of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson’s baptism in 1832, visit the Lewis Carroll Visitor Centre, receive a talk about the church, be served refreshments by the volunteers who run the Centre, browse in their shop and see the many listed houses of Daresbury Village itself. At 11.45am we will leave and travel through the village of Preston Brook, where goods used to be unloaded from barges on the Bridgewater Canal, on our way to the ancient MEMBERS & GUESTS74 ONLY
Catalyst Science Discovery Centre and Museumvillage of Halton, with its many listed buildings, wherewe will make a brief stop for you to see the 11th centuryHalton Castle, the 16th century Seneschal’s House andthe 18th century Sir John Chessyre Library. From therewe will pass the quarry in Weston where sandstonewas extracted to build St Ann’s Church in Manchesterand the extensive chemical industries of the region.Crossing the Runcorn-Widnes Jubilee Bridge we willarrive at the Catalyst Science Discovery Centre andMuseum at 12.30pm where you can have lunch inthe Elements café, see the Museum of the ChemicalIndustry, travel in the scenic glass lift to the fourthfloor Observatory with its 360 degree panoramic viewof the whole area and visit the Mersey Crossings VisitorCentre to see how the new bridge is being built. Catalystis fully accessible throughout. We will leave at 3.15pmto make our way back to Manchester past Dutton Hall,which was moved brick by brick to Sussex, and throughthe small conservation area of Bartington Green withits thatched cottages, to arrive back in Manchester forapproximately 5.30pm.The trip will cost between £18 and £20 per person,which includes all transport, gratuities, entrance fees,refreshments and a free illustrated guide to DaresburyChurch (n.b. lunch at Catalyst not included). Numbersare restricted to 50. C 75
President’s Annual Dinner‘A Just War’ GWLooerrddtnoGensuMdthaoyrni1ea5sttherJyun7pem2016Lord Charles Guthrie of Craigiebank GCB LVO OBE has served the British Military over decades culminating this distinguished career with chief advisory posts to the British Government. He currently sits in the House of Lords as a Crossbench Life Peer where his focus is on defence, health services medicine, and international affairs (the Gulf, India, South America).Lord Guthrie’s curriculum vitae boasts high positions, starting with his commission into the Welsh Guards in 1959 and service with Special Air Service from 1966, which saw him rise through the ranks to Colonel (1979) and then Brigadier (1981). Lord Guthrie was awarded on OBE for his tour in Northern Ireland in 1980. He later took up the posts of Professional Head of the British Army (1994 – 1997) and Chief of Defence Staff (1997 – 2001) after which he retired from the military before taking up his position in the House of Lords. He has been the Principal Military Advisor to two UK Prime Ministers and three Secretaries of State for Defence, a role that allowed him to advise on the Bosnian and Kosovo conflicts. Whilst in his current position as a Peer in the House of Lords, Lord Guthrie sits on the boards of several companies and organisations such as Rivada Networks, Gulf Keystone and Colt Defence.Outside of his professional activities, Lord Guthrie is also involved in voluntary positions and charities such as Action Medical Research (President), St. John’s Hospice (Chairman) and London Youth (President). Since 2013 he has been Chancellor of Liverpool Hope University and he also holds the honourable position of Gold Stick to the Queen.76 MEMBERS ONLY
Lord Guthrie with the Prince of Wales at an event for ‘WalkOn Wales’, a charity for Welsh veteran Guards, of which Lord Guthrie is President. Photo © walkonwales.orgIn 2007, Lord Guthrie and Michael Quinlan (former Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence) co-wrote a book entitled Just War - The Just War Tradition:Ethics in Modern Warfare which explores ethics inmodern warfare through the concept of the JustWar Tradition. Their work looks at the origins of thetradition in Christian thinking and traces its evolvinginterpretation to analyse its bearing on contemporaryconflicts such as Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. Thebook outlines the main tenets of the concept and usesthese principles of the Just War Tradition to set out apractical moral framework for modern-day warfare.For those members wishing to acquaint themselves with the subject, the book is published byBloomsbury Publishing and it is available, along withother books on the subject, from Amazon and otherbooksellers.This event is a joint event with Broughton House, the only providerof nursing and residential care for allex-service men and women in the NorthWest which will celebrate its centenaryin 2016. C 77
The Manchester Lecture 2016 Princess Anne about to give the Manchester Lecture 1990Early July 2016In 1988, the Society embarked upon an ambitious venture - to hold a prestigious annual lecture, thesubject matter of which should reflect the achievements,concerns and opportunities of modern Manchester andits immediate region.The first lecture was given by the Rt Hon Lord Barnett PC on 15th June 1988, followed on 17thMay 1989 by Michael Heseltine. The themes addressedwere The Revival of the North West and The North Westin the 1990s. On 25th June 1990, HRH the PrincessRoyal addressed the Society in Manchester Town Hall,with particular reference to aspects of Manchester’sOlympic Games bid. These first three lectures wereheld in conjunction with BBC North West and weretelevised.Since the first high-profile Manchester Lectures, the lecture took place a further five times beforebecoming instituted again as an annual event thatwas to coincide with The Manchester Day parade,launched in 2010. The Lit & Phil have hosted speakersincluding the ambassadors for the US and China aswell as Cherie Blair. Last year’s Manchester Lecturewas given by the Chief Executive of Manchester CityCouncil, Sir Howard Bernstein, on the very pertinentsubject of ‘The Northern Powerhouse’. It proved verypopular with Society members and the public alike,despite being held on one of the hottest evenings ofthe summer!Details of the Manchester Lecture 2016 will beannounced closer to the date.78 C
MembershipThough most of the lectures of the Lit & Philare open to the general public, people whoattend regularly are encouraged to becomefull members. The benefits of membershipare: priority booking for events and theoption to book for supper to socialisewith others members after events; regularupdates from e-Bulletins that feature extraarticles about upcoming lectures and newsfrom associated organisations; admissionto an annual dinner and members-onlyevents; an annual edition of the ManchesterMemoirs, published continuously since1785, and priority booking for events.Many of our lectures are very popular, andspace is available only for members andtheir guests.To enquire about membership, simplyspeak to us at a lecture, or alternativelye-mail or telephone the office.Subscription Rates for the current sessionare: Ordinary: £108 Joint: £173 Retired: £83 Joint Retired: £153 Under 30: £82 Joint Under 30: £140 Corresponding: £40 Student: £15Subscription Rates are to be ratified at the AGM inSeptember 2015. Please also note that you must beover the age of 16 in order to apply for membershipof the Society. 79
Venues & Parking LCohnegthMamil’lsgSatceh,oMolaonfchMeustseirc, Lancashire, M3 1SB Tel: 0161 834 9644 www.chethams.com Parking: There are limited parking spaces at Chetham’s provided on a first come first served basis. Blue Badge holders will be guaranteed a space. Parking is located at the rear of the venue off Hunts Bank. Other parking has been recommended at Shudehill or the Arndale. For further enquiries about parking, please e-mail: [email protected] GGoorrttoonnLManone,aMstearnychester, M12 5WF Tel: 0161 223 3211 www.themonastery.co.uk Parking: Free on-site parking. MJohanncDheasltteorn BMueiltdroinpgolitan University Chester Street, Manchester, M1 5GD Tel: 0161 247 1779 www.mmu.ac.uk Parking: Chester Street parking with blue badge spaces (M1 5GD). WMeasntcohneBstueirldCinogn,fSearecknvciellCe eSntrtereet, Manchester, M1 3BB Tel: 0161 955 8181 www.manchesterconferencecentre.co.uk Parking: Charles Street multistorey car park. Blue Badge in front of venue; non-reservable. BMraidngcehfeosrtderSDtreenett,aloEffdHucigahtieornCCaemntbrreidge Street, Manchester, M15 6FH Tel: 0161 275 6600 www.mandec.co.uk Parking: Booth Street West car park. Blue Badge at rear of venue, go through barrier aside the multistorey car park to cross over to parking bays. OMladnHchaellsLtearnGe,rMamanmcharesStcehr,oMol13 0XT Tel: 0161 224 7201 www.mgs.org Parking: On-site parking.80
Venues & ParkingQStuyaalr,rWy BilmanskloMw,iCllheshire, SK9 4LATel: 01625 527468www.nationaltrust.org.uk/quarry-bankParking: On-site parking 200 yards from attraction,with parking spaces for those with mobility difficulties.There is also a buggy service to take people from thecar park to the attractions, and between buildings.There will be seating placed around the Mill for thosewho may need to rest.RBoooytahl NStorerteht eWrnesCt,oMllaengcehoefsMteru, sMic13 9RDTel: 0161 907 5200www.rncm.ac.ukParking: Rosamund Street West, Booth Street Westand Aquatics Centre parking on Booth Street East.Blue Badge at rear of venue - ring to reserve parkingbay.SStt.AAnnnnS’st,CMhuanrcchhester, M2 7LFTel: 0161 834 0239www.stannsmanchester.comParking: On-street parking on King Street ormultistorey car park located off King Street West(Back South Parade, M3 3PW). Blue Badge parkingat both ends of St Ann’s Street which can be accessedfrom Deansgate.S45t.SJpamrinegs CGlaurbdens, Manchester, M2 2BGTel: 0161 829 3000www.stjamesclubmanchester.orgParking: On-street parking on King Street ormultistorey car park located off King Street West (BackSouth Parade, M3 3PW). Blue Badge parking bays arelocated on Spring Gardens (outside Post Office) or offKing Street on Cheapside (outside Lloyds TSB). 81
Search
