July 10, 2021
Summer Walking Tour – Roman York
Discover Roman York through the city’s archaeology… …our guided walk will take you around key sites excavated by York Archaeological Trust. Under the spotlight are the temples, granaries, bathhouses and bread ovens of York’s civilian settlement, and includes sneak peeks at some of the latest finds from the YAT fieldwork team. The tour also includes […]
October 27, 2018
Knight School – Defend the City Walls
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to defend the city walls at York with our Knight School event
October 12, 2018
Autism Hour at The Richard III & Henry VII Experiences
The Richard III & Henry VII Experiences are proud to be supporting National Autism Hour at 4pm on Friday 12th October.
August 29, 2018
Medieval Craft & Mystery Tour: Carts, Crafts & Corpus Christi!
The feast of Corpus Christi was first celebrated in York Minster in the early 14th century, but by around 1375, the event had developed into the performance of a series of religious pageants acted out on carts by the Guilds of York and drawn around the city to a specific route.  Put on annually for almost 200 years, these plays became […]
August 15, 2018
Look to Your Walls: Barbicans, Bars and Broken Bits!
York has proudly sat behind its stone defences since Roman times. To this day, substantial forms of the city’s defences still remain and, indeed, York has more miles of intact wall than any other city in England.
August 11, 2018
York Walls Festival 2018 at Richard III Experience
Community groups across York are working together to stage the first ever York Walls Festival, on Friday 10th and Saturday 11th August, 2018.
Saturday will see a host of guided walks, events and open days across the city centre, giving the public the chance to find out more about parts of the three mile circuit they might not often visit. For children there will be a Walls Passport to collect stamps for as they make their way around the city.
August 11, 2018
York Walls Festival 2018 at Henry VII Experience
Community groups across York are working together to stage the first ever York Walls Festival, on Friday 10th and Saturday 11th August, 2018.
Saturday will see a host of guided walks, events and open days across the city centre, giving the public the chance to find out more about parts of the three mile circuit they might not often visit. For children there will be a Walls Passport to collect stamps for as they make their way around the city.
June 30, 2018
Church Explorers 2018
Church Explorers is a summer-long festival celebrating the architectural and archaeological importance of Yorkshire’s magnificent church buildings.
June 22, 2018
Magic & Mystery at Barley Hall
Magic and Mystery is a new exhibition at Barley Hall that explores the often fine line between science, religion and magic in medieval society.
February 16, 2018
Festival Walking Tour: 2,000 Years of History in 2,000 Steps
Learn about York’s historic streets and buildings from a different point of view.