📢Our next lecture is almost here 📢 𝑨 𝒀𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝑨𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒅: 𝑮𝒆𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚, 𝑷𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒚, 𝑰𝒏𝒅𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒍 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒐𝒅𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒚 𝑩𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆𝒚 𝑨𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒗𝒆 This talk will be in-person and online. The talk is FREE but booking is essential: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/thoresby-society 📆Date: Thursday 9th October 🕧Time: 6pm (refreshments from 5:30pm) 📍Location: The Leeds Library, 18 Commercial Street, Leeds, LS1 6AL ♿Accessibility: This event will be held on the first floor of the library which can be accessed via a lift from the ground floor entrance, which is at street level. Alternatively, there is a stair lift available from the ground floor foyer, which is also at street level. 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸 Godfrey Bingley was a prominent Yorkshire industrialist who took up geology, photography and global travel upon his retirement in the 1880s. His collection of almost 10,000 photographs is housed at the University of Leeds, where he worked as an assistant to Percy Kendall, its first Chair of Geology and one of the founders of the hatchling institution. Thanks to local records and diligent historians, we know something of Bingley's life: he owned a foundry on Harper St, married into a wealthy family of doctors, was an active member of the Thoresby Society, the Yorkshire Geological Society, and the Leeds Photographic Society, and had aspirations as a politician. The details of his extensive trips abroad, however, remain a mystery. What drove Bingley to travel around Europe, the Americas, and Africa, taking his bulky photographic equipment with him? Who funded these expeditions and who accompanied Bingley on these grand adventures? This lecture seeks to answer these questions by uncovering clues in Bingley's photographic archive. Doing so, it offers a whistlestop tour of the world seen through the lens of the camera wielded by a nineteenth-century Englishman. (fb)

October is Black History Month When researching Black history you sometimes have to dig a little deeper. This image of Prince Alamayu, an Ethiopian prince who stayed and died in Leeds in 1879, comes from 'Aspects of Leeds 3, Discovering Local History' (2001) #BlackHistoryMonth (fb)