Officers: G.F. Patten, President; A. Newton, Past President; G.F. Drewery, L.V. Murphy, Vice-Presidents; E.D. Scull, Secretary; N.S. Staveley, Treasurer; K.O. Kemp, Editor of 'Humberside'; P.W. Hick, Master of Revels. Council: A.G. Bell; K.N. Parsons; G.H.W. Peach; J.W. Roach; Dr M.S. Sanders; Dr R.D. Turner.

Syllabus:

'Aristophanes - Next, Whom Thrash?' by Frederick Patten, 10 Oct 2005; 'Anthony Burgess - Much More Than a Clockwork Orange' by Mark Bones, 17 Oct 2005; 'Lord Chesterfield and the Augustan Age' by Howard Peach, 24 Oct 2005; 'The Doors of Perception' by Inayat Khan, 31 Oct 2005; Short Papers and Book Reviews, 7 Nov 2005; 'Yeats's Prose' by Keith Parsons, 14 Nov 2005; H.G. Wells - An Ingenius Genius' by John Crawley, 21 Nov 2005; 'Matthew Harman - A Minor Victorian Poet' by Edward Ball, 28 Nov 2005; 'The Visionary Politics of Gerrard Winstanley' by Alan Newton, 5 Dec 2005; Yuletide Revels, 12 Dec 2005; Ladies Evening 'Waiting for Godot' by Geoffrey Annis, 9 Jan 2006; 'William Somerset Maugham' by Michael Sanders, 16 Jan 2006; 'Pascal's Pensees' by Eric Scull, 23 Jan 2006; 'The Churches of Poulson's Holderness Revisted (illustrated)' by Geoffrey Bell, 30 Jan 2006; Short Papers and Book Reviews, 6 Feb 2006; 'The Trial of Socrates' by David Gale, 13 Feb 2006; 'The Quirky Humour of Garrison Keillor' by Barry Ward, 20 Feb 2006; 'Trollope - Barchester Chronicles - Twenty Two Years On' by Alan Plater, 27 Feb 2006; 'Literature in Medicine' by Richard Turner, 6 Mar 2006; Annual General Meeting and Review of the Session, 13 Mar 2006.

Meetings held 7.30pm at Guildhall.