Happy 200th Birthday to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society

Today YPS Members are enjoying the Society’s 200th birthday with a Bicentenary Dinner in York Mansion House.

On the blog you can read how the Society began on 7th December 1822 at James Atkinson’s house on Lendal, York; who with his friends William Salmond and Anthony Thorpe discussed what to do with the fossils from the recent Kirkdale Cave discoveries.

https://www.ypsyork.org/blog/two-hundred-years-ago-12/

As membership grew the Society built and founded the Yorkshire Museum and gardens which are continuing as a very special part of York today. The story of the Society is a fascinating insight into the life of York, Yorkshire and further afield and as a result the Society is also publishing “From Cave to Cosmos: a history of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society” by Sarah Sheils as part of the celebrations.

Copies available from the YPS office and an order form here:

From Cave to Cosmos Order Form published