Wanted: Parents needed to help us plan a new exhibition space in Leeds.
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We are planning a new exhibition space to make the most of the treasures of the University of Leeds’s Brotherton Library and we’d like your input to make it family-friendly. If you have children or grandchildren under 12 and can spare an hour and a half to join our discussion at 11am on 16th November 2013 we’d love you to join us.
This event is aimed at adults.
This is part of the University of Leeds’s plans to develop a new exhibition space to provide learning programmes, public facilities, volunteering opportunities and exhibitions, so that more people can access and enjoy the rare books and archive collections.
If you are interested the session will give you an opportunity to look at items from the collection which tells the story of Leeds’s impact on the world, and the impact of the world on key local people. The collections include:-
• Original manuscripts and notes from authors and poets from English Literature and children’s literature from 1500s to the present day;
• The Liddle collection of papers and artefacts from the First World War telling the story of the ordinary people caught up in the conflict;
• Cookery books and recipes from across the last 500 years;
• Medieval manuscripts and papyrus and clay tablets that tell the story of written communication across the ages;
• Local history to illuminate the social and economic story of Leeds and the West Riding;
• Manuscripts and books covering a huge range of subjects from music and art to Russian literature, Romany history, maps and atlases, politics and the history of science.
We have limited capacity for this event so please email
[email protected] with the subject Treasures Gallery by 11 November to book your place.
If you are interested in getting involved and adding your views we would love to hear from you.
The event will take place at: The Centenary Gallery, Parkinson Building, Woodhouse Lane, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT (Opposite the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery – turn right once inside Parkinson Court) for directions see library.leeds.ac.uk/art-gallery-visit