A panel debate to coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week.
In response to the number of working-age adults unable to work due to poor mental health, health secretary Wes Streeting told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that mental-health conditions are being ‘overdiagnosed’ - a claim backed up by more than four in five GPs who believe that the ups and downs of normal life are being wrongly redefined as mental disorders.
Get to know our collections up close as we tell you stories about a selection of objects in our ever-popular Tuesday Treasure lunchtime drop-in.
Renowned novelist Caryl Phillips spent his childhood in Leeds and remains a committed Leeds United fan. While known around the world for his powerful fiction, he’s also frequently written about being a football fan, including the complexities of being a Black fan of Leeds United in the 1960s and 70s.
As part of the Voice of the Fans exhibition, in conversation with Professor Andrew Warnes, Phillips discusses his experience as a fan, of writing about football and what Leeds United means to the city he grew up in.
Claire Warwick and John Boocock discuss the origins and history of the Unofficial Leeds United Email List and football supporters in Cyberspace. The ‘Leeds List’ claims to be the oldest surviving football supporters’ email list in the UK.
Join Mick Ward from Marching Out Together, local historian Andrea Hetherington, and former Leeds Other Paper journalist Dr Tony Harcup for a discussion about the fascinating history of independent media in Leeds since the 1970s - and particularly its links with football fan culture.
This panel event brings together experts on football heritage and fan culture, including Professor Richard Haynes (The Football Imagination), PhD researchers Cameron Huggett and Aurélien Gerard, and curator Dora Petherbridge. Topics will include the rise of football fanzines, solidarity movements in the 1980s, and Andrew Watson’s XI—an all-star fantasy team of Black footballers and footballers of colour in Scotland, developed through a National Library of Scotland project celebrating football’s roots, culture, heritage, and communities.
Fan-led media occupies a unique space in the world of football, from a handful of photocopied fanzines sold outside football grounds in the ‘70s, to the global reach of today’s multimedia platforms. Join the British Library and Leeds Libraries to explore fan-driven publishing in the present moment, including its role in the wider media landscape, what it offers audiences, why it’s important and how it has endured despite changes in the globalised game.
It’s the Science of Gin, as Quantum Sauce marks World Gin Day 2025!
Savour the Flavours of gin-based science with talks from three real-life researchers!
Dr Jen Wallis - Sozzled Cities and Secret Tipplers: Women Drinkers in Myth and Reality
Dr Pete Ianetta - Rebellious Spirit: the first climate positive gin, and the power of peas!
Dr Ruaraidh MacIntosh - The Chemistry of Gin (not as dry as it sounds!)
Gins, Grins and Mind Expansion at Farsley’s Old Woollen, 11th June!
We are incredibly excited to welcome back Robin Ince who will join us for an evening in the Old Woollen to talk about his latest book Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal : My Adventures in Neurodiversity.
Robin Ince is a comedian, actor and writer. He is the author of several acclaimed books, including The Importance of Being Interested and I’m a Joke and So Are You.
To celebrate Windrush Day, we are very pleased to announce that we will have a guest Bookseller for the Day in the shop.
Howard Gardner, co-writer of ‘Finding Home’, the ground-breaking memoir that gives a vivid account of an important part of British history, will be in the shop between 11am and 3pm, so do pop in to say hello.
We will be hosting a FREE drinks reception at 3pm where Howard will give a reading from the book. There’s no charge to attend but we are asking people to book a spot. Ordering free tickets will confirm your places for 3pm.