When John Phillips (1800-74) arrived in Yorkshire in 1819 as a penniless teenager with his uncle, the great geological pioneer William “Strata” Smith, he could have no idea how the landscapes of Yorkshire were going to dominate his life. A …
The 2020 Festival of Ideas is online this year with a special collection of events: going live from Tuesday 2nd June to Sunday 14th June. Festival events cover science, technology, archaeology, social sciences, philosophy, history, art, poetry, literature and dance. …
This new website by UK Research and Innovation has been developed to explain the scientific thinking about aspects of current research linked to the Coronavirus outbreak. Click the link in red below to visit this website: Coronavirus explained
Professor Andy Marvin is interviewed about Sir George Cayley for North Yorkshire County Council’s series on people “Made in Yorkshire” Link to NYCC Made in Yorkshire Website Scroll down the above link for the video interview with Andy Marvin “Great …
“The Arras Culture of East Yorkshire. Celebrating the iron Age” Edited by Dr Peter Halkon has just been published by Oxbow Books. ISBN 01865 241249 Publisher’s Website Also of interest is Peter Halkon. “The Parisi: Britons and Romans in East …
The winner of the 2019 Royal Society Insight Investment Science book prize is Caroline Criado Perez for “Invisible Women “. Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug that is …
The Chemistry Department are hosting a family Christmas lecture with the YPS on Tuesday 3rd December at 7pm. All ages welcome. Yorkshire Philosophical Society Lecture by Professor Sir John Holman, YPS President Hosted by the Department of Chemistry. A colourful …
The Calotype Trail in Museum Gardens and Library Lawn is now complete. Two panels, one on the YPS Lodge, and one outside York Explore, give background information, while the remaining twelve panels show early photographs, called calotypes, taken at or …
Astronomy, God & The Search For Elegance York Minster 7pm on Wednesday 21st August (Ebor Lecture Series) This lecture will discuss how scientific theories must do more than merely satisfy the data; they must do so in a way that …
The Department of Archaeology at the University of York is delighted to be hosting the Society for Medieval Archaeology’s annual conference on The Long Black Death: new perspectives on 5th and 6th July 2019. There is a public lecture on …
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