Past events

This year we mark the 600th anniversary of the Collegiate Church and Dean Rogers Govender’s talk will focus on the last century and bring us to the present day...

Despite extraordinary advances in the development of new drugs and biotechnology, cancer continues to rep-resent one of the leading causes of death worldwide...

Although governments claim to ‘follow the science’, the activity we call ‘science’ and the community of ‘scien-tists’ can still seem strange and remote to most people...

T. S. Eliot said “Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them...

The discussion will cover the lives, struggles and achievements of both women.  They grew up over a century apart, but as mixed-race girls they both had to overcome the obstacles and frustrations of white, male-dominated society...

The Annual General Meeting of  The Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society will be held online, via the BlueJeans platform, on Tuesday 21st September 2021 at 6.30 p.m. 

NB Registration is a two-stage process.  Once your details have been approved by a moderator you will receive an email with details on how to 'join the event' on the night.

*Registration closes at 5.00 pm on Friday 17th September so if you would like to attend please register in good time.*

Ed Glinert of New Manchester Walks, the city’s group of professional guides, will be leading this tour into the very heart of old industrial Manchester.

The double portrait identified only in the last century as two ambassadors to the court of Henry Vlll at the time of his “Great Matter” – his divorce from Katherine of Aragon - and which hangs in the National Gallery, is a painting that has been subject to much interpretation and research...