Join us for York Festival of Ideas 2019. Running from 4 to 16 June, the Festival includes more than 200 mostly FREE events to educate, entertain and inspire. A selection of events is listed below and the full programme can …
The University of York Library invites YPS members to view a free small exhibition in the University Library between 9th April to 1st July, based on their Tempest Anderson resources. The focus is to give an overview of this York …
Operation Weather rescue needs your help! Every day since 1860 the Met Office has produced daily weather reports from across Western Europe. Much of this data has not been digitised so the challenge for British Science Week this year is …
Sir Edwin Landseer’s famous painting ‘Monarch of the Glen’ was once owned by a YPS member, Albert Denison, Lord Londesborough. This majestic picture of a stag had been commissioned for the House of Lords, but on completion in 1851 it …
The YPS get-together on Wednesday 21st November is cancelled as the Star Inn is closed due to a fire. Next event details to be posted shortly in mid January 2019 at 2.30pm.
Friday 7 September 2018, 7pm, St Peter’s School You are all welcome to the 1000th meeting of the York Astronomical Society, which will comprise four special talks in one evening at St Peter’s School. Traversing 15,000-foot lunar mountains, exploring the …
Join Dr Peter Addyman CBE for a one hour conversation with Graham Harris (Roman Bath Museum) as they discuss Romans, York and archaeology. From 7pm take the opportunity to talk to the Yorkshire Museum curators as they display Roman objects …
Yorkshire’s Jurassic World: how the Ichthyosaur came to York One of the star exhibits in the Yorkshire Museum’s major new exhibition, Yorkshire’s Jurassic World, is the magnificent skeleton of an ichthyosaur (which can also be viewed, by the wonders of …
“Reconnecting with our Rivers” with Jonathan Dent, Nature Reserve Manager, St Nick’s Community-led Natural Flood Management on Tang Hall and Osbaldwick Becks. Jonathan gave some follow up information: Volunteer sessions with St Nick’s St Nick’s Website Friday 10am-1pm Join in …
William the Conqueror Lecture – an apology We would like to offer our sincere apologies to all those who came to our lecture on 14th November and were turned away. Alongside our sincere apologies we wish to provide some explanation …
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