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Yorkshire Museum

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The Yorkshire Museum is a museum in York, England. [1]

85 relations: Aberdeen Art Gallery, Alice Roberts, Angles, Anglo-Scandinavian, Archaeology, Atkinson Art Gallery and Library, Barbara Pyrah, BBC News Online, Bedale Hoard, Biology, Botanical garden, British Museum, British Science Association, Carboniferous, Cave bear, Cawood sword, Charles Wellbeloved, Charles, Prince of Wales, Constantine the Great, Coppergate Helmet, Crucifixion of Jesus, Cumbria, David Attenborough, Designation Scheme, Eboracum, Edward Charlesworth, Edward Simpson (forger), Elizabeth Hartley (archaeologist), European Museum of the Year Award, First Folio, Forensic facial reconstruction, Fossil, George Willmot, Great auk, Greek Revival architecture, Harrogate, Hyena, John Phillips (geologist), Jurassic, Kirkdale Cave, Legio IX Hispana, Listed building, Mesozoic, Metal detector, Middleham, Middleham Jewel, Minster FM, Moa, Nativity of Jesus, Niello, ..., North Yorkshire, Norwich Castle, Ormside bowl, Oxley Grabham, Portable Antiquities Scheme, Quaternary, Reinforced concrete, Reyahn King, Richard III of England, Sapphire, Sauropoda, Silversmith, St Mary's Abbey, York, Star Carr, Star Carr Pendant, Tertiary, The Guardian, The Press (York), Trajan, Trinity, University of Nottingham, Vikings, Walter Edward Collinge, Walter Harvey Brook, Walter Keeping, William Dallas, William of York, William Wilkins (architect), York, York Art Gallery, York Castle Museum, York Museum Gardens, York Museums Trust, Yorkshire Day, Yorkshire Philosophical Society. Expand index (35 more) »

Aberdeen Art Gallery

Aberdeen Art Gallery is the main visual arts exhibition space in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland.

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Alice Roberts

Alice May Roberts (born 19 May 1973) is an English anatomist, osteoarchaeologist, physical anthropologist, palaeopathologist, television presenter and author.

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Angles

The Angles (Angli) were one of the main Germanic peoples who settled in Great Britain in the post-Roman period.

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Anglo-Scandinavian

Anglo-Scandinavian is an academic term referring to the archaeological and historical periods during the 8th to 13th centuries in which there was migration to - and occupation of - the British Isles by Scandinavian peoples generally known as Vikings.

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Archaeology

Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of humanactivity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Atkinson Art Gallery and Library

The Atkinson is a building on the east side of Lord Street extending round the corner into Eastbank Street, Southport, Sefton, Merseyside, England.

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Barbara Pyrah

Barbara Joan Pyrah (1943–2016) was a British geologist, museum curator, and illustrator.

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BBC News Online

BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production.

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Bedale Hoard

The Bedale Hoard is a hoard of forty-eight silver and gold items dating from the late 9th to early 10th century AD and includes necklaces, arm-bands, a sword pommel, hacksilver and ingots.

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Biology

Biology is the natural science that studies life and living organisms, including their physical structure, chemical composition, function, development and evolution.

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Botanical garden

A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms botanic and botanical and garden or gardens are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word botanic is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens.

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British Museum

The British Museum, located in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture.

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British Science Association

The British Science Association (BSA) is a charity and learned society founded in 1831 to aid in the promotion and development of science.

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Carboniferous

The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Permian Period, Mya.

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Cave bear

The cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) was a species of bear that lived in Europe and Asia during the Pleistocene and became extinct about 24,000 years ago during the Last Glacial Maximum.

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Cawood sword

The Cawood sword is a medieval sword discovered in the River Ouse near Cawood in North Yorkshire in the late 19th century.

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Charles Wellbeloved

Charles Wellbeloved (6 April 1769 – 29 August 1858) was an English Unitarian divine and archaeologist.

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Charles, Prince of Wales

Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is the heir apparent to the British throne as the eldest child of Queen Elizabeth II.

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Constantine the Great

Constantine the Great (Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus Augustus; Κωνσταντῖνος ὁ Μέγας; 27 February 272 ADBirth dates vary but most modern historians use 272". Lenski, "Reign of Constantine" (CC), 59. – 22 May 337 AD), also known as Constantine I or Saint Constantine, was a Roman Emperor of Illyrian and Greek origin from 306 to 337 AD.

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Coppergate Helmet

The Coppergate Helmet (also known as the York Helmet) is an eighth-century Anglo-Saxon helmet found in York.

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Crucifixion of Jesus

The crucifixion of Jesus occurred in 1st-century Judea, most likely between AD 30 and 33.

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Cumbria

Cumbria is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England.

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David Attenborough

Sir David Frederick Attenborough (born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster and naturalist.

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Designation Scheme

The Designation Scheme is an English system that awards "Designated status" to museum, library and archive collections of national and international importance.

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Eboracum

Eboracum (Latin /ebo'rakum/, English or) was a fort and city in the Roman province of Britannia.

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Edward Charlesworth

Edward Charlesworth (5 September 1813 – 28 July 1893) was an English geologist and palaeontologist.

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Edward Simpson (forger)

Edward Simpson ("Flint Jack") (born 1815) was a British geologist and forger of antiquities, such as arrowheads and fossils.

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Elizabeth Hartley (archaeologist)

Elizabeth Grayson Hartley, (née Blank, 1947 – 31 January 2018) was an American archaeologist and curator.

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European Museum of the Year Award

The European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA) is the longest running and most prestigious museum award in Europe, presented each year by the European Museum Forum (EMF) under the auspices of the Council of Europe.

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First Folio

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Forensic facial reconstruction

Forensic facial reconstruction (or forensic facial approximation) is the process of recreating the face of an individual (whose identity is often not known) from their skeletal remains through an amalgamation of artistry, anthropology, osteology, and anatomy.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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George Willmot

George Francis Willmot BA FSA (Born 1908) was a British archaeologist and curator based in York.

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Great auk

The great auk (Pinguinus impennis) is a species of flightless alcid that became extinct in the mid-19th century.

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Greek Revival architecture

The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in Northern Europe and the United States.

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Harrogate

Harrogate is a spa town in North Yorkshire, England.

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Hyena

Hyenas or hyaenas (from Greek ὕαινα hýaina) are any feliform carnivoran mammals of the family Hyaenidae.

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John Phillips (geologist)

John Phillips FRS (25 December 1800 – 24 April 1874) was an English geologist.

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Jurassic

The Jurassic (from Jura Mountains) was a geologic period and system that spanned 56 million years from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period Mya.

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Kirkdale Cave

Kirkdale Cave is a cave located in Kirkdale near Kirkbymoorside in the Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire, England.

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Legio IX Hispana

Legio IX Hispana ("9th Legion – Spanish"), also written Legio nona Hispana or Legio VIIII Hispana, was a legion of the Imperial Roman army that existed from the 1st century BC until at least AD 120.

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Listed building

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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Mesozoic

The Mesozoic Era is an interval of geological time from about.

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Metal detector

A metal detector is an electronic instrument which detects the presence of metal nearby.

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Middleham

Middleham is a small market town and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England.

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Middleham Jewel

The Middleham Jewel is a late 15th-century gold pendant, set with a large blue sapphire stone.

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Minster FM

Minster FM is an independent commercial local (ILR) radio station based in Dunnington, York, England.

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Moa

The moa were nine species (in six genera) of flightless birds endemic to New Zealand.

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Nativity of Jesus

The nativity of Jesus or birth of Jesus is described in the gospels of Luke and Matthew.

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Niello

Niello is a black mixture, usually of sulphur, copper, silver, and lead, used as an inlay on engraved or etched metal, especially silver.

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North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire is a non-metropolitan county (or shire county) and larger ceremonial county in England.

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Norwich Castle

Norwich Castle is a medieval royal fortification in the city of Norwich, in the English county of Norfolk.

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Ormside bowl

The Ormside Bowl is an Anglo-Saxon double-bowl in gilded silver and bronze, with glass, perhaps Northumbrian, dating from the mid-8th century which was found in 1823, possibly buried next to a Viking warrior in Great Ormside, Cumbria, though the circumstances of the find were not well recorded.

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Oxley Grabham

Oxley Grabham (1864-1939) MA was a British naturalist, ornithologist, and museum curator.

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Portable Antiquities Scheme

The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public.

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Quaternary

Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).

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Reinforced concrete

Reinforced concrete (RC) (also called reinforced cement concrete or RCC) is a composite material in which concrete's relatively low tensile strength and ductility are counteracted by the inclusion of reinforcement having higher tensile strength or ductility.

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Reyahn King

Reyahn King is a British curator and museum director.

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Richard III of England

Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was King of England from 1483 until his death at the Battle of Bosworth Field.

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Sapphire

Sapphire is a precious gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum, an aluminium oxide.

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Sauropoda

Sauropoda, or the sauropods (sauro- + -pod, "lizard-footed"), are a clade of saurischian ("lizard-hipped") dinosaurs.

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Silversmith

A silversmith is a craftsman who crafts objects from silver.

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St Mary's Abbey, York

The Abbey of St Mary is a ruined Benedictine abbey in York, England and a Grade I listed building.

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Star Carr

Star Carr is a Mesolithic archaeological site in North Yorkshire, England.

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Star Carr Pendant

The Star Carr Pendant is a unique engraved shale pendant from the Mesolithic site of Star Carr in North Yorkshire.

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Tertiary

Tertiary is the former term for the geologic period from 65 million to 2.58 million years ago, a timespan that occurs between the superseded Secondary period and the Quaternary.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Press (York)

The Press is the local daily paper for a substantial area of North and East Yorkshire, based in the city of York.

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Trajan

Trajan (Imperator Caesar Nerva Trajanus Divi Nervae filius Augustus; 18 September 538August 117 AD) was Roman emperor from 98 to 117AD.

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Trinity

The Christian doctrine of the Trinity (from Greek τριάς and τριάδα, from "threefold") holds that God is one but three coeternal consubstantial persons or hypostases—the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit—as "one God in three Divine Persons".

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University of Nottingham

The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom.

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Vikings

Vikings (Old English: wicing—"pirate", Danish and vikinger; Swedish and vikingar; víkingar, from Old Norse) were Norse seafarers, mainly speaking the Old Norse language, who raided and traded from their Northern European homelands across wide areas of northern, central, eastern and western Europe, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries.

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Walter Edward Collinge

Walter Edward Collinge FES FLS FSA (1867–1947) was a British zoologist and museum curator.

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Walter Harvey Brook

Walter Harvey Brook (1863 – 6 April 1943) was an English antiquarian, artist and curator based in York.

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Walter Keeping

Walter Keeping MA FGS (1854–1888) was a British geologist and museum curator.

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William Dallas

William Sweetland Dallas FLS (1824–1890) was a British zoologist and curator.

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William of York

William of York (late 11th century – 8 June 1154) was an English priest and Archbishop of York.

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William Wilkins (architect)

William Wilkins RA (31 August 1778 – 31 August 1839) was an English architect, classical scholar and archaeologist.

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York

York is a historic walled city at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England.

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York Art Gallery

York Art Gallery in York, England is a public art gallery with a collection of paintings from 14th-century to contemporary, prints, watercolours, drawings, and ceramics.

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York Castle Museum

York Castle Museum is a museum located in York, North Yorkshire, England, on the site of York Castle, originally built by William the Conqueror in 1068.

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York Museum Gardens

The York Museum Gardens are botanic gardens in the centre of York, England, beside the River Ouse.

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York Museums Trust

York Museums Trust (YMT) is the charity responsible for operating some key museums and galleries in York, England.

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Yorkshire Day

Yorkshire Day is celebrated on 1 August to promote the historic English county of Yorkshire It was celebrated in 1975, by the Yorkshire Ridings Society, initially in Beverley, as "a protest movement against the Local Government re-organisation of 1974".

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Yorkshire Philosophical Society

The Yorkshire Philosophical Society (YPS) is a charitable learned society (charity reg. 529709) which aims to promote the public understanding of the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the archaeology and history of York and Yorkshire.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire_Museum

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