The University of Leeds Ladies' Club

 

Welcome to the 100th academic session of the University of Leeds Ladies' Club

 2024/2025

autumn 2024 with swallow

We have a monthly newsletter started by President Carole, now produced by Jean Williams. Find extracts,  in Programme, where you can find this month's, together with  previous newsletters. The next newsletter will be  circulated on or about the 30th. September,  so if you want to  subscribe news, please do so by the 20th.

To read Jean William's  newsletter and  to  find out  about  past and forthcoming events, please look under Programme : Summer 2024

 The Ladies' Club is 100 years old on the 29th October.

We are a friendly group of over seventy members,

with a varied programme of talks, social events

and visits to places of interest.  

GENERAL INFORMATION

Our coffee mornings are now held at 10:30am, usually on the second Tuesday of the month at:

The Golden Beam

The Golden Beam

For more information, go to Summer Programme.

These are informal meetings, so there is no need to book but for other venues it is important that you inform the named person  by the due date if you wish to attend, as we have to advise the venues of numbers in advance. 

Subscription

 

 £10 for 2024/25.  

Due 1st September

Details regarding payment can be found in your monthly email letter.

 

Membership

 

There are two categories of membership, Club Membership and Associate Membership. Eligibility for both groups is listed under About Us: Constitution but note that Associate Membership is by invitation only by a Club Member. 

                 

About Us

is the tab under which

you can also access a moving picture gallery of members,

past and present:  

 

Below is a picture taken in the Union Building.

 More pictures can be seen in the Programme pages

and under the menu tabs : Gallery and Archive.

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Please look up news items under  Programme

Addresses and  phone numbers of contacts can be found on the  programme made available to members each term  by email.

Quiz questions and answers are  emailed monthly. 

 

Website: www.universityofleedsladiesclub.co.uk

 

 

 BOOK GROUPS 

The two groups have resumed meeting informally once a month at members’ homes.

One group continued to meet through Zoom during Covid and now report in the newsletter.

 GARDEN GROUP 

The Group  meets on the first Monday of each month.

at 2.00pm for 2.15pm. 

 LOCAL GROUPS :

Adel  

Roundhay 

West Park 

 The local groups  normally meet in members’ homes once a month.  

“For further information about any of the groups please contact the Secretary on rochegillian8@gmail.com

Informal Cinema Group

Seniors on Thursday afternoons at the Cottage Road Cinema. To see the coming films:

             cottageroadcinema.co.uk

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dialect project in library

The University of Leeds School of English

has digitised their historic dialect recordings archive for  the public. This is the most famous and complete survey of dialects in England. It is preserved in the University’s Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture, a unique and nationally important multi-media archive. 

To learn more and to submit your own phrases and expressions in order to bring the archive into the 21st century and to preserve today’s language for future generations, visit:

Dialect and Heritage.org.uk

We have much to contribute Ladies. 

(Note: the site administrator did research for this department in the 1960s) 

More news about the University is available on the podcast:

foreverleeds.captivate.fm