York 200 Years Ago: Tourism, Archeology and the Making of Modern York

Dr Akehurst’s lecture will focus on the social construction of York’s current civic identity as a tourist destination and as a centre for archaeology.  In the spirit of excavation, three ‘trenches’ will uncover the high intellectual culture of Restoration York; the design of the city’s mid-eighteenth-century archaeologically inspired architecture; and the founding of the Yorkshire Museum in the early nineteenth century. 

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