Exploring York

Join an Uncomfortable York walking tour and hear untold histories and diverse stories highlighting the impact of women, people of colour and LGBTQIA+ individuals from York's past.

York Cares is supporting St Nicks’ work at Fulford Ings to remove balsam with some balsam bashing. Join us on a gentle 2km walk and find out more.

What does York history mean for its residents? Whether you have lived in the city for a few months or many generations, why not drop by our workshop and share what York means to you?

Enjoy a walking tour around the riverfront of the Ouse as we showcase York’s highlights and illustrate the role of the river in York’s World Heritage bid.

How can the design of parks be more welcoming for women and girls? Find out more and share your ideas at an interactive Make Space York pop-up exhibition.

York Cares is supporting St Nicks’ work at Fulford Ings to remove balsam with some balsam bashing. Join us on a gentle 2km walk and find out more.

What sort of music did diarist Jane Ewbank hear and perform as a well-to-do young woman living in early 19th-century York? Join musicologist Rachel Cowgill for a new take on Georgian York.

Join Pat Cullum, lead volunteer at Holy Trinity Goodramgate and learn how former York MPs Robert de Holme Sr and Nicholas de Blackburn made waves by taking to the waves.

Join a guided walk and travel back 220 years to the world of Jane Ewbank, the 26-year-old daughter of a York apothecary who enjoyed a rich cultural life in the city.

Join us for an interactive role-playing game session set in Renaissance York, featuring women printers operating in the city.

Have you faced the fiery poo-bison? Been chased round a garden by an escaped bear? No? Then you've obviously not been on The Filthy, Beastly Tour of York! Enjoy a family-friendly guided tour.

Have you faced the fiery poo-bison? Been chased round a garden by an escaped bear? No? Then you've obviously not been on The Filthy, Beastly Tour of York! Enjoy a family-friendly guided tour.

Historian Allen Warren explores the life and legacy of York’s most remarkable 20th-century Dean, Eric Milner-White.

How can people's enjoyment of the waterscapes of York be enhanced? How can flooding and other aquatic issues be better understood and communicated? Talk to the team from the York Waterscapes project.

Visit the Council for British Archaeology (CBA) offices and find out more about archaeology and the work they do across the UK.

Join archaeologist John Oxley on a guided walk exploring how the narratives of York’s City Walls evidence and support York's case for World Heritage status.

Learn how churches have developed over the centuries and enjoy a guided tour around one of England's most important ecclesiastical buildings.

Discover the fascinating history of how flooding has shaped York over the centuries on a guided city centre tour. What clues to the past do York’s castles, bridges, churches and halls offer?

From Europe's earliest wallpaper to printing on ice, join Helen Smith, Director of Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print, to learn about the history of printing in York.

Immerse yourself in the world of the Vikings as expert speakers look at the past, present and future of festivals and public events on a Viking theme.

Take a tour of Fishergate Postern Tower’s Medieval masons’ marks and then watch a professional stonemason cut a mark on stone and, if you like, design your own!

Take a tour of Fishergate Postern Tower’s Medieval masons’ marks and then watch a professional stonemason cut a mark on stone and, if you like, design your own!

Come and see the carving of a Viking ship recently discovered on a stone on Pikeing Well, the 18th-century Well House on New Walk.

Join our expert speakers as they look back over 200 remarkable years of rail history and assess its transformative impact on the city of York and the wider region.

Take a tour of Fishergate Postern Tower’s Medieval masons’ marks and then watch a professional stonemason cut a mark on stone and, if you like, design your own!

Take a tour of Fishergate Postern Tower’s Medieval masons’ marks and then watch a professional stonemason cut a mark on stone and, if you like, design your own!

Discover how the major changes taking place in the heart of our city centre, driven by York’s Masterplan and the ambitious York Central regeneration scheme, will drive economic, social and cultural growth.

Take a tour of Fishergate Postern Tower’s Medieval masons’ marks and then watch a professional stonemason cut a mark on stone and, if you like, design your own!

As part of the Joseph Rowntree Centenary, The Rowntree Society explores the story of Rowntree’s relationship with Trade Unions during the 1920s.

Find out how and why York floods, explore different kinds of flood defence schemes in operation and discuss what the future may bring on a York’s Hidden History guided tour.

Hear the story of the production of the five groundbreaking Royal Commission volumes on the archaeology and Architecture of the City of York from Roman times to the 20th century. Join Peter Addyman, former Director of York Archaeology.

Bring along your smartphone for an interactive nature tour as your guides demonstrate how to get involved in citizen science.

Join us for StreetLife's Queer Walk of York, an LGBTQI+ heritage trail of sites of significance to the city's queer communities, and a post-walk conversation on Spaces of Queer Activism in York.

Discover what linked York and Münster historically, the background to the cities’ twinning, and how links are ongoing today.

Discover how trees contribute to our sense of place within urban communities and explore how a space-based approach could colour a green-print for York as a White Rose Forest city.

Conservator Alison Gilchrist discusses the significant collection of stained glass at All Saints and its recent restoration, before leading a tour of the windows.

Join archaeologists as they discuss the damaging effects of global warming on waterlogged archaeological sites and explain how two projects aim to tackle this issue in York.

Join historian Carolyn Twomey as she explores the various social and ritual roles of the baptismal font in the premodern past and its significance to parish communities.

Learn more about York's fascinating heritage on a guided walk with Neil Redfern, Executive Director of the Council for British Archaeology.

Love it or hate it? The Willow Disco was an infamous part of York’s nightlife culture for 42 years. Join us to mark the 10th anniversary of the Willow's closure and the launch of the Willow Community Digital Archive.

Love it or hate it? The Willow Disco was an infamous part of York’s nightlife culture for 42 years. Join us to mark the 10th anniversary of the Willow's closure and the launch of the Willow Community Digital Archive.

Love it or hate it? The Willow Disco was an infamous part of York’s nightlife culture for 42 years. Join us to mark the 10th anniversary of the Willow's closure and the launch of the Willow Community Digital Archive.

Love it or hate it? The Willow Disco was an infamous part of York’s nightlife culture for 42 years. Join us to mark the 10th anniversary of the Willow's closure and the launch of the Willow Community Digital Archive.

Join us as the winners of the 17th annual York Design Awards are revealed.