What’s on
Most of our Lectures and Cafe Scientifique events are held in person with a few on Zoom. Please check the date, time and day of the week for each event as they do vary.
Opening hours for our office at the Lodge are shown on our homepage.
25
Feb
“A failed railway technology? The atmospheric railway and its successors.”
YPS Lectures
- Date
- 25 Feb 2025
- Start time
- 7:00 PM
- Venue
- Tempest Anderson Hall
- Speaker
- Roger Backhouse

11
Mar
The Railway Station: Two Centuries of Transformation
YPS Lectures
- Date
- 11 Mar 2025
- Start time
- 2:30 PM
- Venue
- Tempest Anderson Hall
- Speaker
- Dr Bill Fawcett

19
Mar
Fifty Years Behind the Scenes: digitizing the archives of York Archaeology
Café Scientifique
- Date
- 19 Mar 2025
- Start time
- 7:30 PM
- Venue
- Mickelgate Social
- Speaker
- Ellie Drew, York Archaeology

25
Mar
Is Healthcare AI Safe?
YPS Lectures
- Date
- 25 Mar 2025
- Start time
- 7:00 PM
- Venue
- Tempest Anderson Hall
- Speaker
- Dr Mark Nicholson, University of York

26
Mar
Ethelburga The life and after-life of a Princess of Kent and Queen of Northumbria in a newly Christian Age
YPS Lectures
- Date
- 26 Mar 2025
- Start time
- 7:30 PM

28
Mar
Historic Holgate & Ancient Acomb with York’s Hidden History Walk
YPS Activities
- Date
- 28 Mar 2025
- Start time
- 1:45 PM

8
Apr
YPS Get Together Lunch on Tuesday 8th April from 12pm
YPS Activities
- Date
- 8 Apr 2025
- Start time
- 12:00 PM

8
Apr
A ‘Druid’s Temple’ between Ingleborough and Ribblehead: the Sleights Pasture prehistoric monument complex.
YPS Lectures
- Date
- 8 Apr 2025
- Start time
- 2:30 PM
- Venue
- Tempest Anderson Hall
- Speaker
- Yvonne Luke, Ingleborough Archaeology Group
