BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Athenaeum Liverpool - ECPv6.15.12.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Athenaeum Liverpool X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://enda.studiodev.co.uk/wp X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Athenaeum Liverpool REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20140330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20141026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20150329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20151025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20160327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20161030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20170326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20171029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20180325T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20181028T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241016T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241016T200000 DTSTAMP:20260528T083439 CREATED:20240928T150958Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241007T115902Z UID:11166-1729101600-1729108800@enda.studiodev.co.uk SUMMARY:Rogue Agent: By James Crossland (Book Launch) DESCRIPTION:A SPECIAL BOOK LAUNCH FOR ROGUE AGENT BY JAMES CROSSLAND\nIN LIVERPOOL’S ICONIC ATHENAEUM LIBRARY READING ROOM \nWEDNESDAY 16TH OCTOBER 2024\n6PM TO 8PM (INCLUDES TALK AND WINE RECEPTION) \n** BOOK YOUR TICKET ON EVENTBRITE NOW ** \nROGUE AGENT: THE THRILLING BIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT BRUCE LOCKHART\, BRITAIN’S ‘AGENT’ IN MOSCOW \nSir Robert Bruce Lockhart (1887–1970) was an impressive figure: a diplomat\, intelligence agent\, conspirator\, journalist and propagandist who played a key role in both world wars. He was a man who charmed his way into the confidences of everyone from Leon Trotsky to Anthony Eden. A man whom the influential press baron Lord Beaverbook claimed ‘could well have been prime minister’. And yet Lockhart died almost forgotten and near destitute\, a Scottish footnote in the pages of history. \nRogue Agent is the first biography of this gifted yet habitually flawed maverick. It chronicles his many exploits\, from his time as Britain’s ‘Agent’ in Moscow\, and his role in a plot to bring down the communist regime\, to leading the Political Warfare Executive\, a secret body responsible for disinformation and propaganda in the Second World War. \nExploring Lockhart’s unorthodox thinking and contributions to the development of psychological warfare as well as his hedonistic lifestyle\, late nights and many affairs that left him in a state of perpetual debt\, Rogue Agent tells the thrilling story of this unconventional war hero. \nJoin James Crossland in conversation with Ian Skillicorn of the Liverpool Book Club for this special book launch event\, which includes a live author interview and audience Q&A in the Athenaeum Library Reading Room\, followed by a wine and canapés reception in the News Room. \nThere are only a few tickets left at the time of writing\, book your place now via the Concierge. URL:https://enda.studiodev.co.uk/wp/event/rogue-agent-by-james-crossland-book-launch/ LOCATION:The Athenaeum Liverpool\, Church Alley\, Liverpool\, L1 3DD\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Members & Guests,Public Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231123T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231123T210000 DTSTAMP:20260528T083439 CREATED:20230918T135256Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230918T135353Z UID:10562-1700766000-1700773200@enda.studiodev.co.uk SUMMARY:The Signalman DESCRIPTION:The Athenaeum is delighted to welcome back ArtsGroupie CIC\, to perform their new production of the Charles Dickens classic – The Signalman. \nA ghostly figure has visited the signalman twice already\, each time preceding a terrible disaster. When the apparition appears for the third time\, it’s up to the signalman to decode its meaning and prevent another catastrophe. \nEnjoy a gripping slice of gothic horror from Charles Dickens\, regarded as the greatest horror story ever written. \nIn the tradition of classic oral storytelling\, a lantern and two players is all that is needed to tell the spine tingling tale of the Signalman. \n“The Signalman is a powerful and haunting story about survivor’s guilt and isolation – something we believe will be of striking relevance to our audience following the pandemic. Our inability to control events around us can be more frightening than any ghost\, as Dickens knew well. He wrote from experience\, a survivor of the Staplehurst railway disaster – events that both inspired and haunted the author.” \nReception drinks will be served at 7:00pm (Club wine or soft drink). \nThe performance will start at 8:00pm sharp\, admittance may not be possible after this time. \nBook your place now via the Members’ Area or through the Concierge. URL:https://enda.studiodev.co.uk/wp/event/the-signalman/ LOCATION:The Athenaeum Liverpool\, Church Alley\, Liverpool\, L1 3DD\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Members & Guests,Public Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231118T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231118T160000 DTSTAMP:20260528T083439 CREATED:20230918T132437Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231026T105033Z UID:10559-1700308800-1700323200@enda.studiodev.co.uk SUMMARY:Liverpool Salon: Designs for Living DESCRIPTION:Join Michael Owens (researcher\, writer and lecturer; author Play the Game: How the Olympics came to East London) and John Boughton (social historian\, blogger; author Municipal Dreams:the Rise and Fall of Council Housing) to take a historical perspective on Britain’s current housing crisis. From the golden age of post war planning to the decades of decline from the late 70s and 80s and focusing on the experience of Merseyside\, we’ll ask what lessons might be learnt from Britain’s post-war vision for building a new\, more modern and better future from the rubble of war. \nTickets £7.50 \nThe event runs until 1.45 pm\, but you are invited to stay to continue the conversation over drinks or a lunch in the Athenaeum’s newsroom. \nDesigns for Living is the latest in a series of Liverpool Salon discussions\, which explore the past as a way of thinking about future possibilities and reflecting on the problems of our own time. \n URL:https://enda.studiodev.co.uk/wp/event/liverpool-salon-urban-design-regeneration-in-liverpool-and-manchester/ LOCATION:The Athenaeum Liverpool\, Church Alley\, Liverpool\, L1 3DD\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Members & Guests,Public Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231026T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231026T203000 DTSTAMP:20260528T083439 CREATED:20230918T123138Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230918T123138Z UID:10534-1698345000-1698352200@enda.studiodev.co.uk SUMMARY:The Exchange: Free Your Mind - With Laura Dodsworth & Patrick Fagan DESCRIPTION:An eye-opening look at the world of manipulation\, and what we can do to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and influence our minds. “Manipulation is not new. But today’s combination of technology\, social media and AI\, combined with marketing and behavioural science\, is new in its sophistication and scale. Everyone wants to know their own mind. To do that\, you have to be able to understand and resist attempts to influence your mind.” – Laura Dodsworth and Patrick Fagan \nYou’re manipulated all day every day. We all are. Our social media feeds\, our governments\, our friends and family\, even the humble waiter who asks\, “Still or sparkling?” – they’re all conspiring to influence what we think\, feel and do. It’s turbocharged in the era of big data and AI\, and if you think you’re not being influenced\, you’re probably the most influenceable of all. \nFortunately\, bestselling author of A State of Fear Laura Dodsworth and former Cambridge Analytica behavioural scientist Patrick Fagan have joined forces to show you what’s up the magician’s sleeve. \nFree Your Mind is your field guide to navigating this information battlefield. Join Dodsworth and Fagan in a live discussion on powerful psychological principles like ‘nudging’\, cutting-edge science and anonymous insider access. They draw on interviews with mind-control experts ranging from monks to magicians\, to uncover their most deceptive techniques and expose the hidden tactics used to influence you\, from social media to subliminal messages. They also did the fieldwork so you don’t have to\, joining forums\, courses\, cults and digital detoxes. \nLaura Dodsworth\nLaura is an author\, journalist\, photographer and commentator. She is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller A State of Fear\, as well as a trilogy of books about the body. \nPatrick Fagan\nPatrick is a behavioural scientist with 12 years’ experience of mind manipulation. Previously lead psychologist at Cambridge Analytica\, he is now a part-time lecturer at Goldsmiths College\, University of London and University of the Arts\, and a guest lecturer at University College London\, as well as running several data consultancies. He is the author of Hooked: Why cute sells and other marketing magic we can’t resist. \n  \nTickets to the talk are available for £10.00\, a dinner is also available post talk for an additional £25.00 for three courses. \n  \nArrivals from 6:30pm \nEvent Commences: 6:45pm \nDinner: 8:40pm URL:https://enda.studiodev.co.uk/wp/event/the-exchange-free-your-mind-with-laura-dodsworth-patrick-fagan/ LOCATION:The Athenaeum Liverpool\, Church Alley\, Liverpool\, L1 3DD\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Members & Guests,Public Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231025T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231025T203000 DTSTAMP:20260528T083439 CREATED:20230918T122331Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231012T115057Z UID:10531-1698258600-1698265800@enda.studiodev.co.uk SUMMARY:Liverpool Book Club: An Evening with Ramsey Campbell DESCRIPTION:The Exchange in association with Liverpool Book Club & Liverpool John Moores University present an evening with author Ramsey Campbell. \nTickets to the talk are available for £7.00\, a dinner is also available post talk for an additional £25.00 for three courses. \nBook your places now via the Members’ Area or through the Concierge. \nHosted by The Liverpool Book Club. \n  \nArrivals from 6:30pm \nEvent Commences: 7:00pm \nAudience Q&A : 7:30pm \nBook Sales & Signing: 8:00pm \nDinner: 8:30pm \n  \nBorn in Liverpool\, Ramsey has lived all of his life on Merseyside and as a writer\, editor and critic\, he has been a creative force for over 50 years. He is described as ‘Britain’s most respected living horror writer’ in The Oxford Companion to English Literature and best-selling author Stephen King has said he is: “literate in a field that has attracted many comic book intellects\, cool in a field that tends toward panting melodrama…fluid in a field where many of the best practitioners fall prey to cant.” \nA precocious intellect\, Ramsey was reading at two and dabbling in writing by the age of seven. It was an apparently innocuous children’s tale which first peaked his interest in horror fiction. In a Guardian interview\, Ramsey explained how a Rupert Bear story called Rupert’s Christmas Tree had an unexpected effect on him. He said: “Rupert acquires a magical tree that decamps after the festivities and returns to its home in the woods…the details – the small high voice from the tree\, the creaking that Rupert hears in the night\, the trail of earth he follows from the tub in his house\, above all the prancing silhouette that inclines towards him\, the star it has in place of a head – are surely the stuff of adult supernatural fiction. I think I got my start in the field right there.” \nTwo key people are credited with nurturing Ramsey’s early fascination with writing – his mother and his English tutor at St Edward’s College\, West Derby. His teacher\, Brother Kelly\, regularly asked him to read his stories to the class and Ramsey’s mother Nora\, who herself had short stories published in writer’s magazines\, encouraged him early on to send his work to publishers. \nAged only 11 Ramsey submitted his first collection Ghostly Tales to a range of publishers and although it was rejected\, a letter which stated: “We don’t publish ghost stories\, but this is a promising start\,” encouraged him to keep writing\, and Ramsey continued to avidly consume the work of Lovecraft\, Bierce\, Kafka and the cinema of film noir. \nOn leaving school at 16\, Ramsey worked in the Inland Revenue but continued to write in his free time\, selling several of his early stories to editor August Derleth\, who went on to become a friend and mentor. At the suggestion of Derleth\, Ramsey rewrote many of his earliest stories\, moving their settings from Massachusetts to the fictional Brichester\, imagined to be near the River Severn in Gloucestershire. This change of locales led to Campbell’s first professional published work\, the story\, The Church in High Street in 1962 and the book\, The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants in 1964. \nRamsey left the tax office to work in Liverpool public libraries\, becoming a full time writer in 1973 after the publication of Demons by Daylight. His second hardcover collection of horror stories\, The Height of the Scream\, was published in 1976 as well as his first novel\, The Doll Who Ate His Mother\, which he now recalls had mixed reviews but has rarely been out of print since. Just three years later this was followed by The Face that Must Die\, which is still considered by many critics to be one of Campbell’s finest works. \nFrom that point onwards Ramsey published numerous novels and short story collections\, with hardly a year between publications. The majority of his work has been nominated for and has won major awards\, leading to him becoming one of the world’s most decorated horror writers. He has won four World Fantasy Awards\, ten British Fantasy Awards\, three Bram Stoker Awards\, and the Horror Writers’ Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award. \nHis passion for writing shows no sign of abating\, with Ramsey continuing to write in a contemporary style with modern day references. He frequently sets his tales on Merseyside and has drawn on local history and traditions – a book of short stories and ten novels to date.\nRamsey comments that\, contrary to what might be expected\, the older he gets the more appealing he finds terror\, saying: “Being made to feel by art is surely no bad thing – to be scared any more than to be made to weep or indeed to be amused out of one’s wits. It’s a way of engaging the imagination\, and a good deal is right with that.” URL:https://enda.studiodev.co.uk/wp/event/the-exchange-an-evening-with-ramsey-campbell/ LOCATION:The Athenaeum Liverpool\, Church Alley\, Liverpool\, L1 3DD\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Members & Guests,Public Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231018T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231018T203000 DTSTAMP:20260528T083439 CREATED:20230918T120043Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231012T115015Z UID:10519-1697653800-1697661000@enda.studiodev.co.uk SUMMARY:Liverpool Book Club: Bodies In The Library - An Evening With Margaret Murphy DESCRIPTION:The Exchange: Bodies In The Library – An Evening with Margaret Murphy – Oct 18th 2023 \nJoin us for the first of two events this month celebrating Liverpool authors who have found national and international success. Margaret Murphy will entertain you with her stories of a life of crime – as an award-winning writer of crime and thriller fiction. \nMargaret’s novels have garnered critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. She is a past Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association and Chair of the CWA Debut Dagger. She has been a contributor to both BBC Radio Merseyside’s Drive Time and Radio 4’s The Message. \nTickets to the talk are available for £7.00\, a dinner is also available post talk for an additional £25.00 for three courses. \n  \nHosted by The Liverpool Book Club. \nArrivals from 6:30pm \nEvent Commences: 7:00pm \nAudience Q&A : 7:30pm \nBook Sales & Signing: 8:00pm \nDinner: 8:30pm \n  \nMenu \n  \nStarter \nFrench Onion Soup \nCheese Croute \n-oo0oo- \nMain Course \nOx Cheek Bourguignon \nGarlic and parsley mash\, brioche crumb \nFrench Beans \nMushroom Bourguignon (V) \n  \n-ooOoo- \nDessert \nPeach Pavlova \n  \nThis month marks the first of a new detective thriller series by award-winning writer Margaret Murphy\, published under the pen name M.K. Murphy. The novel\, described as ‘a compulsive thriller’ by bestseller Ann Cleeves\, has been optioned for television. \nOver almost three decades\, the Liverpool born author has written 12 internationally-acclaimed psychological suspense novels under her own name\, and 5 forensic thrillers as Ashley Dyer and AD Garrett. \nMargaret will be in conversation with Professor Catherine Cole\, Professor in Creative Writing in The Screen School\, Liverpool John Moores University. They will talk about how Margaret’s passion for research has sustained her career through turbulent times in publishing. This includes spending time in the US Midwest with cops\, CSIs\, cold case detectives and a forensic anthropologist researching one of her forensic thrillers. But research has its perils. She’s been threatened with arrest by Manchester police\, briefly gained the unwanted attention of a drugs gang\, and was infamously kicked out of a psychotherapy open day as a spy! \nProfessor Cole and Margaret will also discuss the influences that have inspired Margaret’s range of writing styles\, the importance of resilience as a writer and the power of reinvention. \nContinue the conversation in the Athenaeum’s dining room over a three course meal. This can be booked separately from the talk and details will be sent with your confirmation email. \nAbout Margaret Murphy \nMargaret’s work has been published in the UK and across North America\, as well as in translation in nine countries. She is a past Chair of the Crime Writers Association (CWA)\, a former RLF Fellow and Reading Round Lector\, and founder of Murder Squad. A Short Story Dagger\, HRF Keating\, and CWA Red Herring award winner\, has also been shortlisted for the ‘First Blood’ critics award and the CWA Dagger in the Library. \nAbout Professor Catherine Cole \nCatherine Cole is Professor in Creative Writing in The Screen School. She has published 4 novels\, and her non-fiction includes Private Dicks and Feisty Chicks: An Interrogation of Crime Fiction (Curtin University Press\, 1996). She is a peer reviewer for the Literature Board of the Australian Council for the Arts\, a regular book reviewer\, participant in Australian and international writers’ festivals and a judge of major national book awards. Catherine’s research interests include Creative Writing and Crime Fiction and True Crime. \n URL:https://enda.studiodev.co.uk/wp/event/the-exchange-bodies-in-the-library-an-evening-with-margaret-murphy/ LOCATION:The Athenaeum Liverpool\, Church Alley\, Liverpool\, L1 3DD\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Members & Guests,Public Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230302T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230302T220000 DTSTAMP:20260528T083439 CREATED:20230215T132315Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T145422Z UID:10202-1677781800-1677794400@enda.studiodev.co.uk SUMMARY:Liverpool Salon Presents: Practical Utopias DESCRIPTION:‘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. \nJoin Kevin Bean\, Heather Alcock and Mick Owens to talk about three idiosyncratic practical utopias: the Chartists’ Land Plan\, Port Sunlight and the 2012 Olympic Park. \nThe discussion begins in the nineteenth century\, a particularly fertile time for social experimentation in England\, with a look at two very different attempts at improving the lives of working men and women in a rapidly industrialising economy: the Chartist Land Plan\, with its vision for extending democratic rights to working men and Port Sunlight\, one man’s vision for an ideal factory town built in an arcadian and utilitarian form. Coming right up to date\, we look at the Olympic Park regeneration as a promised transformation in East London from post-industrial dystopia to family friendly utopia. \nCan practical development and planning bear the weight of political visions and dreams of perfection? What compromises have to be made between pragmatism and utopianism or between freedom and social engineering? Are utopian dreams suitable mechanisms for political transformation or distractions from ‘real politics’? Can they deliver all the benefits that they promise or are they always doomed to disappoint? \nSpeakers \nKevin Bean \nKevin worked as a lecturer in Irish Politics at the Institute of Irish Studies\, University of Liverpool for eighteen years and continues to work as a writer and researcher. His interests include the history of British Labour movement and he is the author of The New Politics of Sinn Féin (2007). He writes on British and Irish politics in a variety of magazines\, newspapers\, and books as well contributing to radio and television discussions on these issues. \nHeather Alcock \nHeather is a PhD researcher at University of Liverpool\, studying the global value of Port Sunlight as a heritage site and influential utopian settlement. Heather has twenty years’ experience in the research\, analysis\, adaptive use\, restoration and sustainable management of listed buildings and conservation areas in the USA and UK. Her current research has supported Port Sunlight’s bid to the United Kingdom’s Tentative List for World Heritage Site inscription. \nMick Owens \nBorn and bred on the Wirral\, Mick worked for the Mayor of London\, where he played a senior role in planning and development\, including in the preparation for the 2012 London Olympic bid. Now a researcher\, writer and lecturer\, his new book\, Play the Game\, captures the drama of the Olympic bid and tells the story of the regeneration in the words of those involved. \nThe Liverpool Salon has been hosting public discussions around philosophical\, political and cultural topics on Merseyside for over seven years. Join us at Liverpool’s historic Athenaeum club for Practical Utopias\, the second in a new series of public 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. \nThe talk is available to Members for £8.00 per person. \nWant to continue the conversation over a post-event dinner? The Dining Room will be open for pre-bookings following the event\, book your place now via the Concierge (concierge@theathenaeum.org.uk)\, three-courses are available for £25.00 per person. \n URL:https://enda.studiodev.co.uk/wp/event/liverpool-salon-presents-practical-utopias/ LOCATION:The Athenaeum Liverpool\, Church Alley\, Liverpool\, L1 3DD\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Members & Guests,Public Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220714T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220714T190000 DTSTAMP:20260528T083439 CREATED:20220616T114005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220616T114521Z UID:9691-1657825200-1657825200@enda.studiodev.co.uk SUMMARY:In Conversation with Professor Lucy Easthope: UK's leading disaster planner DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening in conversation with Professor Lucy Easthope\, world-leading authority on recovering from disaster. \n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n\nProfessor Lucy Easthope lives with disaster every day. When a plane crashes\, a bomb explodes\, a city floods or a pandemic begins\, she’s the one they call. \nLucy has been at the centre of the most seismic events of the last few decades\, advising on everything from the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami to the 7/7 bombings\, the Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand\, the Grenfell fire and the Covid-19 pandemic. In every catastrophe\, Lucy is there to pick up the pieces and prepare for the next one. She holds governments to account\, helps communities rally together\, returns personal possessions to families\, and holds the hands of the survivors. \nIn her moving Sunday Times bestselling memoir “When The Dust Settles Stories of Love\, Loss and Hope from an Expert in Disaster”\, Lucy reveals what happens in the aftermath of a disaster and explores how we pick up and rebuild with strength and perseverance. She takes us behind the police tape to scenes of destruction and chaos\, introducing us to victims and their families\, but also to the government briefing rooms and bunkers\, where confusion and stale biscuits can reign supreme. Telling her own personal story\, Lucy looks back at a life spent on the edges of disaster\, from a Liverpudlian childhood steeped in the Hillsborough tragedy to the many losses and loves of her career. \nLucy’s book will be available for purchase and signing at the event. \nThe Athenaeum’s Dining Room is taking pre-bookings for dinner following the talk. This requires a separate booking and information will be sent with your confirmation email. \n  \nMembers of The Athenaeum can book now through the Members’ Area or through reception. Non-Members are asked to book via https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-conversation-with-professor-lucy-easthope-uks-leading-disaster-planner-tickets-367623500787  \n\n\nThis event is organised by The Exchange – public conversations about the important issues of our age. We encourage debate and the sharing of opinions and experiences in a welcoming and respectful environment. It is our belief that through the ongoing exchange of ideas we can achieve a greater knowledge and understanding\, and that this benefits both the individual and society as a whole. URL:https://enda.studiodev.co.uk/wp/event/in-conversation-with-professor-lucy-easthope-uks-leading-disaster-planner/ LOCATION:The Athenaeum Liverpool\, Church Alley\, Liverpool\, L1 3DD\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Members & Guests,Public Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220705T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220705T140000 DTSTAMP:20260528T083439 CREATED:20220623T132312Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220623T132359Z UID:9702-1657022400-1657029600@enda.studiodev.co.uk SUMMARY:In Conversation With... Katherine Fairclough and Bronwen Rapley - Women in Property DESCRIPTION:The below event is organiser by Women In Property\, though is open to all Athenaeum Members/guests and to all sexes. \n  \nWomen in Property are pleased to announce a new event: \nIn Conversation With…Katherine Fairclough and Bronwen Rapley\nTuesday 05 July 2022 12:00 PM\nJoin us to hear from two incredible women\, leading from the front in the public and social housing sectors. \nOur lunch takes place in The Atheneum\, a private members’ club\, founded in 1797 to provide a meeting place where ideas and information could be exchanged in pleasant surroundings – the perfect place to hear about Katherine and Bronwen’s professional journeys and aspirations. \nKatherine Fairclough has been the Chief Executive of the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority since June 2021. She joined from Cumbria County Council\, where she had been Chief Executive since 2017. \nBronwen Rapley is Chief Executive of Onward Homes\, a Housing Association owning and managing over 35\,000 homes across the North West. Bronwen has worked in housing and regeneration for 30 years\, in a wide variety of roles including legal services\, delivery and regulation. \nTicket price includes lunch.* \nBook your place now through the Members’ Area or via Reception \n*please advise of any dietary requirements when booking \nThis event is kindly sponsored by Cowgills and Legal & Contingency URL:https://enda.studiodev.co.uk/wp/event/9702/ LOCATION:The Athenaeum Liverpool\, Church Alley\, Liverpool\, L1 3DD\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Members & Guests,Public Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220216T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220216T220000 DTSTAMP:20260528T083439 CREATED:20220210T103110Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220606T093718Z UID:9549-1645036200-1645048800@enda.studiodev.co.uk SUMMARY:Dinner with Laurence Westgaph DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday 16th February\, Proprietor and local historian Laurence Westgaph will be giving an important talk entitled The Athenaeum and the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans.  \nJoin our President for a reception drink in the Newsroom from 6:30pm ahead of a 7:00pm talk in the Library followed by question before dinner upstairs. Tickets are available for £28.00 per person and are bookable via the Members’ Area or through reception. \nLaurence is well known in the city and further afield for his extensive research and expert knowledge on this subject and we look forward to another informative though convivial evening at the Club. \n  \nThis event is open to non-members by invitation\, to book please contact reception on 0151 709 7770. \nStarter \nTartlet of Crottin Du Chevre (V) \nPear William puree\, confit beets\, candied walnuts \n  \nMain course \nBeef Daube Bordelaise \nRoast Shallots\, chestnut mushrooms\, Morcilla pont neuf \nServed with green beans\, Hasselback potatoes \n-oo0oo- \nCourgette Frittata (V) \nCassoulet of Borlotti beans\, basil crème fraiche \n  \nDessert \nMandarin and Toffee Trifle URL:https://enda.studiodev.co.uk/wp/event/dinner-with-laurence-westgaph/ LOCATION:The Athenaeum Liverpool\, Church Alley\, Liverpool\, L1 3DD\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Members & Guests,Public Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211016T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211016T230000 DTSTAMP:20260528T083439 CREATED:20210929T151739Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210929T151739Z UID:9316-1634407200-1634425200@enda.studiodev.co.uk SUMMARY:Victorian Women In Bed (Theatre Production) DESCRIPTION:Tickets are available now for ‘Victorian Women In Bed’ live at The Athenaeum! \nFull details of how you can purchase your tickets can be found here – Victorian Women In Bed Tickets | The Athenaeum Liverpool | Sat 16th October 2021 Lineup (skiddle.com) \n‘Victorian Women in Bed’ is a theatre production\, written by Janet Goddard and produced by Barbara Hardy\, first staged in 2019\, comprising of five short plays featuring a newly crowned Queen Victoria and Florence Nightingale amongst others. The women are funny\, cross\, attractive and vibrant just as much as they are eccentric and odd. \n‘What is a bed for but to die in?’ asks angry\, dead Emily Bronte. \nWe snuggle down to participate in bed adventures with six bold women who decimate convention to be themselves. We question Emily’s analysis and love our bedbound women and the lives they reveal. \nThe Young Queen Victoria\, Elizabeth Barrett Browning\, Charlotte Bronte\, Sarah Bernhardt\, Florence Nightingale and Emma Hardy\, with the help of family and acquaintances\, show themselves to us through their bed tales. \n‘A woman has ten claws\, my darlings\,’ Sarah Bernhardt confirms\, proving that\, not then\, not now\, do women go to bed to give their brains a rest! Please come to discover what has drawn our women to their beds and share their secrets … \nStaring Tracey Ann Wood as a Young Queen Victoria! \n URL:https://enda.studiodev.co.uk/wp/event/victorian-women-in-bed-theatre-production-2/ LOCATION:The Athenaeum Liverpool\, Church Alley\, Liverpool\, L1 3DD\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Public Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170909T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170909T153000 DTSTAMP:20260528T083439 CREATED:20170807T101249Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170905T183741Z UID:6382-1504953000-1504971000@enda.studiodev.co.uk SUMMARY:Heritage Open Day - 9th September 2017 DESCRIPTION:‘Step inside Church Alley’s discrete doorway and enter part of Liverpool’s History’. \n  \nFounded in 1797 by prominent Liverpool figures\, the Athenaeum is one of the oldest private members clubs in the UK. Entry into the enigmatic doorway located on Church Alley is restricted only to its Members -or Proprietors as they are known as they each own one equal share- or attendees of functions help at the premises\, however… \n  \nOn Saturday September 9th 2017 the Athenaeum opens its doors to the public as part of Heritage Open Day. In addition to viewing the magnificent rooms within\, including the Newsroom and the spectacular Library\, these special tours will offer an insight into the history of the Club\, its past members\, and the treasures kept within. \n  \nTours of the Club will be commencing at 10:30am\, and will run every 30 minutes until 3:00pm. Tours last approximately 30 minutes\, and booking is essential. \n  \nTo book your place\, please email Katie Hodson ( katie@theathenaeum.org.uk ) stipulating your name\, the amount of tickets required\, and your preferred timeslot\, alternatively you can call our reception on 0151 709 7770. Don’t delay your booking as we predict demand will outweigh our maximum allocations. \n  \n URL:https://enda.studiodev.co.uk/wp/event/heritage-open-day-9th-september-2017/ LOCATION:The Athenaeum Liverpool\, Church Alley\, Liverpool\, L1 3DD\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Public Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150604T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150606T160000 DTSTAMP:20260528T083439 CREATED:20150409T093313Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150409T093313Z UID:5185-1433408400-1433606400@enda.studiodev.co.uk SUMMARY:Coffee\, Tea and Chocolate: Fuelling Modernity DESCRIPTION:Coffee\, Tea and Chocolate: Fuelling Modernity \nPostgraduate and Early Career Researcher Workshop \nLiverpool Athenaeum \n4th – 6th June 2015 \nTimings to be confirmed\, further details to follow. \n  \nThe annual joint workshop of the Athenaeum and 18th Century Worlds Study Group if to take place on 4 – 6 June 2015.  Proprietors and members of the Friends of the Library will be very welcome at the inaugural lecture by Professor Ellis and also to join the workshops. \nIf you wish to participate please inform Prof Rosenhaft on dan85@liverpool.ac.uk \n\nThis two day workshop will be hosted in the Library of the Liverpool Athenaeum\, founded in 1797 to provide ‘the conveniences and accommodation for the acquisition of knowledge…in a town of such commercial and national importance as Liverpool’. \nThis year’s topic is ‘Coffee\, tea and chocolate: Fuelling modernity’.  The workshop will be introduced by a public lecture delivered by Professor Markman Ellis\, entitled     ‘A Most Civilizing Juice’: Tea between China and Britain in the eighteenth century. \n\nGiven the centrality of these new commodities to the structuring of everyday life\, commercial relations and sensory economies in the long eighteenth century\, we anticipate and want to encourage a decidedly interdisciplinary conversation. Topics for discussion might include; \n\n\nThe social and cultural manifestations of the consumption of new luxury food products\nTheir legal regulation\nDiscourses about danger (physical and moral) and pleasure\nThe global contexts and impacts of their production\, carriage\, refinement and marketing\nSweetness and slavery\nMaterial cultures: furniture\, ceramics\, metal ware\nVisual and literary representations\nSociability\, conversation and their loci: the coffee house and the tea-table\n\nCase studies are invited from all periods within the long eighteenth century\, all disciplines and all national contexts\, and papers that offer a global view of a global process will be welcome. \n\nThe workshop will include an opportunity to examine the material cultures of consumption in a visit to the Decorative Arts Collection of the National Museums Merseyside\, led by Dr Pauline Rushton\, as well as chances to explore the built heritage of a premier merchant city of the eighteenth century. \n\nThis workshop has been generously funded by the School of Histories\, Languages and Cultures at the University of Liverpool\, the Social History Society and the Economic History Society. As a result\, \nWE ARE ABLE TO OFFER FIVE BURSARIES OF £50 EACH TO POSTGRADUATE SPEAKERS. \n\nFor further information\, or to submit a proposal\, please contact Helga Müllneritschhelgamue@liv.ac.uk. Proposals (accompanied as appropriate by a bursary request in the form of a letter that includes the contact details of your supervisor) should be submitted by 1st MAY 2015. URL:https://enda.studiodev.co.uk/wp/event/coffee-tea-and-chocolate-fuelling-modernity/ LOCATION:The Athenaeum Liverpool\, Church Alley\, Liverpool\, L1 3DD\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Public Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150505T171500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150505T200000 DTSTAMP:20260528T083439 CREATED:20150421T110200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150427T124017Z UID:5195-1430846100-1430856000@enda.studiodev.co.uk SUMMARY:Edward Rushton: Poetry and Politics in Romantic-Era Liverpool DESCRIPTION:Edward Rushton: Poetry and Politics in Romantic-Era Liverpool \n  \nTo commemorate the bicentenary of the death of Edward Rushton (1756-1814)\, Liverpool’s most radical poet and abolitionist\, Liverpool University Press (http://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/) has published two books which are being launched at the Liverpool Athenaeum on 5 May 2015 at 5.15: The Collected Writings of Edward Rushton\, edited by Paul Baines\, and Franca Dellarosa\, Talking Revolution: Edward Rushton’s Rebellious Poetics\, 1782-1814. There will be a round table discussion involving the authors Franca Dellarosa and Paul Baines and local historian Alexandra Robinson\, readings from the poetry by the writer and performer John Davies (co-writer of Unsung\, a new play about Rushton)\, and some examples of Rushton’s popular songs. Refreshments will be provided. Copies of the books will be available for sale. The event is free but for catering purposes it would be helpful if those intending to come would contact Alexandra Robinson (lexy@liverpool.ac.uk) or Paul Baines (bainespt@liverpool.ac.uk). URL:https://enda.studiodev.co.uk/wp/event/talking-revolution-book-launch/ LOCATION:The Athenaeum Liverpool\, Church Alley\, Liverpool\, L1 3DD\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Public Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150129T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150129T200000 DTSTAMP:20260528T083439 CREATED:20150127T152837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150127T152918Z UID:5105-1422554400-1422561600@enda.studiodev.co.uk SUMMARY:The Athovation Forum DESCRIPTION:In association with \n B O T T L E   T O P   B U S I N E S S \nConnecting Northern Entrepreneurs \n The Athenaeum Innovation Group \nYoung Entrepreneurs Forums \nMeeting monthly\, each event will provide a knowledgeable and experienced speaker followed by an informal forum for discussion around the subject of the day \n The 2015 launch meeting \n 6:00 PM 29th January \n In the News Room \n The keynote speaker will be \n Hems De Winter \nFounder of the multi-award winning \nPR firm DeWinter \n All Proprietors welcome URL:https://enda.studiodev.co.uk/wp/event/5105/ LOCATION:The Athenaeum Liverpool\, Church Alley\, Liverpool\, L1 3DD\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Public Event END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR