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Established in 2000 in the heart of Pennine Yorkshire, our Society offers a high quality and wide ranging programme of lectures and visits and welcomes everyone with an interest in the arts and their history.

The Arts Society, Halifax meets monthly (except in August and September), for lectures at Calderdale Music, The Old Courthouse, Blackwall, Halifax, HX1 2DL

Lectures are held on the second Tuesday of the month at 1.00pm.

THE NEXT LECTURE IS ON TUESDAY 14 OCTOBER, 2025

Medical Gold - FromAncient Egypt to the Nobel Prize

Lecturer: Dr James Grant 

From earliest times man has linked gold with the life-giving light of the sun. This talk illustrates 4,000 years of the history of gold in medicine. The Egyptians used it for its magico-religious properties. Mediaeval alchemists strived to produce it as a source of eternal youth. Today it is used in medical instrumentation, investigation and therapies.

This lecture illustrates how artists, goldsmiths and instru-ment makers, have defined medicine’s relationship with gold togeth-er with the ultimate ‘medical gold’, the Nobel Prize in recognition of fundamental advances in medical science.

Membership enquiries : email: halifax@theartssociety.org