Leeds Clubs
Leeds has been the host to numerous clubs over the years with confusingly similar names:
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Leeds SFL[edit]
fl. 1930s
This is the Granddaddy of them all. The Leeds chapter of the Science Fiction League was the first prominent fan group in the UK, being active during the 30s. It was founded by Douglas W. F. Mayer. It published the Bulletin of the Leeds Science Fiction League edited by Harold Gottliffe.
It organized the first science fiction convention in the UK in Leeds in 1937, which some people feel was the first SF convention anywhere. See Which Was the First SF Convention?
| From Fancyclopedia 1, ca. 1944 |
| A chapter of the SFL in Leeds England, which seems to have held apart from the SFA. Publishing house was the Green Jester. Its outstanding member was J. Michael Rosenblum. |
Leeds Science Fiction Association[edit]
fl. 1950s
SF club formed in the UK in the 1950s. Its clubzine was Orbit
Leeds University Science Fiction Group[edit]
fl. 1966-68
A Leeds club founded by Bill Burns in 1966 which lasted for two years. It was mostly a social group that had little contact with other fan groups.
Leeds and District SF Group[edit]
fl. late 60s
A club in the Leeds, UK are which was organized by Barbara Mace in 1967. It met on alternate Monday evenings in the Victoria pub behind the Leeds Town Hall.
Leeds University SF Society[edit]
fl. mid-70s
A club at Leeds University which was formed in 1973. Eve Harvey was one of the co-founders.
Leeds SF Group[edit]
fl. mid-70s - mid-80s
The Leeds SF Group was a club which met every Friday evening starting around 1974, initially in a pub called The Victoria and later in one called the West Riding. It petered out in the early-mid 1980s.
Members included David Pringle, Mike Dickinson, and Tom Shippey.
Leeds University Union Science Fiction Society[edit]
fl. late-70s to early-80s
A club at Leeds University, UK also known as LUUSFS. It is now known as Leeds University Union Sci-Fi & Fantasy (bah!). At one point, it's clubzine was Black Hole. They ran the Lucon conventions
Its website is https://www.luu.org.uk/sci-fi-fantasy/
Leeds Group[edit]
We don't know much about this and it may be one of the other clubs under a variant name.
