Officers: K. Kemp, President; A. Newton, Past President; G.F. Drewery, F.H. Grewe, Dr M.S. Sanders, E.D. Scull, Vice-Presidents; B. Ward, Secretary; R.W. Smalley, Treasurer; K.N. Parsons, Editor of 'Humberside'; P.W. Hick, Master of Revels. Council: A.G. Bell; B. Burgess; D.N. Gale; R.A. Morton; F.G. Patten; D.W. Purdie; P.W. Rathbone; N.S. Staveley.

Syllabus:

'William Blake - An Approach' by Keith Kemp, 2 Oct 1995; 'The Lost Methodist Chapels of Nineteenth Century Hull (illustrated)' by Geoffrey Bell, 9 Oct 1995; 'The English in Italy' by Alan Newton, 16 Oct 1995; 'Literary Slim-Line Tonics' by Douglas Thomas, 23 Oct 1995; Poetry Event, 30 Oct 1995; 'William Cowper - Castaway' by Philip Harrison, 6 Nov 1995; Short Papers and Book Reviews, 13 Nov 1995; 'Old Tully - The Literary Heritage of M. Tullius Cicero' by David Purdie, 20 Nov 1995; 'Ted Hughes' by Harry Shoosmith, 27 Nov 1995; 'The History of Ideas' by Richard Turner, 4 Dec 1995; Yuletide Revels, 11 Dec 1995; Ladies Evening 'Yeats and the West of Ireland (illustrated)' by Keith Parsons, 8 Jan 1996; 'M.R. James - Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (illustrated)' by James Lang, 15 Jan 1996; 'Moby Dick' by John Roach, 22 Jan 1996; 'Sir Thomas Browne and Robert Burton - Two Seventeenth Century Parsons' by Frederick Patten, 29 Jan 1996; 'Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Great Expectations - A Comparison' by Heinz Grewe, 5 Feb 1996; Short Papers and Book Reviews, 13 Feb 1996; 'Zola in Germinal - Scientist or Sentimentalist?' by Geoffrey Drewery, 19 Feb 1996; 'Arnold Bennett' by Eric Scull, 26 Feb 1996; 'The Mission of Piers Librarian' by Barry Ward, 4 Mar 1996; Annual General Meeting and Review of the Session, 11 Mar 1996.

Meetings held 7.30pm at Guildhall.