‘LEEDS IN YOUR LUNCH HOUR’ RETURNS
Dr Kevin Grady will be returning for the 19th year to present four lunchtime lectures at Leeds Minster.
Starting at 1pm on each Wednesday in February, the lectures address the following topics:
Wednesday 4 February:
‘1626 and All That’: The first Municipal Charter and 400 years of municipal and metropolitan government in Leeds.
Wednesday 11 February
‘The Ingenious Mr Thoresby’: First Historian of Leeds 1658-1725
Wednesday 18 February
‘The Greatest Parish Priest of the Nineteenth Century’: Dr Walter Farquhar Hook, Vicar of Leeds 1837 -1859
Wednesday 25 February
‘A City Transformed 1965-2025’: Leeds Civic Trust and 60 Years of Change in Leeds.’
The lectures are free of charge to attend (we will be taking a collection which we split equally between Leeds Civic Trust and the Minster) so please do come along if you fancy learning about the history of Leeds