The Most Fortunate Situation: The Story of York's Museum Gardens

In 1828, the King granted the grounds of St Mary's Abbey to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. Two years later, The Yorkshire Museum was opened and at the same time, the Society began to lay out the gardens we see today. This fascinating book by Peter Hogarth and Ewan Anderson traces the gardens' roots back to Roman and Norman times before detailing the work YPS and York Museums Trust have carried out to create and maintain the gardens over the past 200 years.