Society Meetings in Detail
Quarterly, Explore and Occasional Meetings
Validating Your Family History Research by Carol Lee
Validating your family history research - with something for everyone. An essential event for us all because the abundance of information available online creates a myriad opportunities for trees to branch off, unknowingly, in wrong directions.
Whether you have a link to a family tree and want to prove, to yourself, that you are following the correct line, or you are researching some details of an ancestor's life and want to verify details.
Date: 23 November 2024
Day: Saturday, 10.30am
Venue: Manchester Central Library
Speaker: Carol Lee
Booking: Eventbrite
Cost: members - free of charge
Cost: non-members - £5
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Annie Horniman, Theatre Pioneer, by Jean Bailo
Join us on Wednesday, 15th January 2025 at 1.00pm for this, our second quarterly tallk of the day: Annie Horniman 1860-1937.
Annie Horniman was born in London to a wealthy middle-class family and could so easily have followed the natural career path of so many of her contemporaries; enjoy an easy life, make a good marriage and spend her time helping her husband further his career. Not our Annie! In an age where women were only just beginning to strike out for themselves Annie broke away from convention and a bequest from her grandmother enabled her to follow her dream to become involved in the theatre.
Her friendship with the Irish poet W.B.Yeates led her across the Irish sea to Dublin and the founding of the Abbey Theatre, from Dublin to Manchester but alas not all plain sailing, however Dublin’s loss was Manchester’s gain.
Controversy in the Midland Hotel. the opening of the Gaiety Theatre and all events in between led to Miss Horniman becoming one of the most prominent women in Manchester, but what happened then? How is it that this fascinating and radical woman is largely unknown today.
Date: 15th January 2025
Day: Wednesday, 1.00pm
Venue: Manchester Central Library
Speaker: Jean Bailo
Booking: will be on Eventbrite
Cost: members - free of charge
Cost: non-members - £5
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The History of Gorton Monastery, by Grahame Birtles
Join us on Wednesday, 16th April 2025 at 10.30am for this, our first quarterly tallk of the day: The History of Gorton Monastery.
Details to follow
Date: 16th April 2025
Day: Wednesday, 10.30am
Venue: Manchester Central Library
Speaker: Grahame Birtles
Booking: will be on Eventbrite
Cost: members - free of charge
Cost: non-members - £5
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Our AGM - late morning, held between our morning and afternoon talks
Our AGM will follow on immediately from the morning talk. If you attend the morning talk we invite you to stay (only members can vote, of course), as there will be a few minutes to wait for the AGM to start at 11.45 (time to be confirmed)
Members who wish to attend the AGM but not the morning meeting can make their way to the Performance Space for about 11.30am, when we can open up the Performance Space. No booking is required - just turn up.
Members and guests who are staying for the aftenoon meeting can use the lunch break to chat to other attendees, buy books from the bookstall or buy lunch from the library cafe on the ground floor.
Date: 16 April 2025
Day: Wednesday, 11.45am
Venue: Manchester Central Library
Speaker: Trustees
Booking: no booking required
Cost: members - all members are invited to stay for the AGM
Cost: non-members - non-members attending both meetings on the day can stay for the AGM but will not be able to vote.
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River Irwell: Pleasure and Perils, by Keith Warrender
Join us on Wednesday, 16th April 2025 at 1.00pm for this, our second quarterly tallk of the day: River Irwell: Pleasure and Perils.
Details to follow
Date: 16th April 2025
Day: Wednesday, 1.00pm
Venue: Manchester Central Library
Speaker: Keith Warrender
Booking: will be on Eventbrite
Cost: members - free of charge
Cost: non-members - £5
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Non-members pay £5 per meeting. Some meetings, in particular a summer visit to another venue, may incur additional costs, any such additional costs are paid by all attendees.