York Crime Walk

York Crime Walk

Walking through the city, engaging with spaces and places associated with crime and justice is a way of seeing and feeling the history of crime, punishment and justice in the present. Walk with us through the city of York as we introduce you to buildings, landmarks, people and places that will connect you in sensory and corporeal ways to the city's history.

  • 1 minute 21 seconds
    Epilogue
    Epilogue by York Crime Walk
    18 May 2018, 10:21 am
  • 5 minutes 37 seconds
    10. York Minster
    Here about the four fires which have plagued the York Minster and its Special Constabulary.
    18 May 2018, 10:21 am
  • 2 minutes 55 seconds
    09. St Michael Le Belfrey
    Join us at the site of Guy Fawke's baptism to discuss the Gun Powder Plot.
    18 May 2018, 10:20 am
  • 4 minutes 58 seconds
    08. St Leonard's Hospital
    Hear more about criminal justices troublesome history with mental health and the founding of The Retreat.
    18 May 2018, 10:19 am
  • 4 minutes 2 seconds
    07. North Street (John Snow)
    Learn about how an outbreak of Cholera affected the city of York.
    18 May 2018, 10:19 am
  • 3 minutes 30 seconds
    06. North Street (Sex Work)
    Find out about more about sex work in Victorian York.
    18 May 2018, 10:19 am
  • 4 minutes 35 seconds
    05. Ouse Bridge
    Cross Ouse Bridge to hear about the life and death of Margeret Clitherow
    18 May 2018, 10:18 am
  • 1 minute 43 seconds
    04. York Magistrates Court
    Find out more about the York Magistrates Court and its place in British criminal justice.
    18 May 2018, 10:16 am
  • 2 minutes 38 seconds
    03d. Yorkshire Witches
    Find out more about the historical cases of so-called 'witchcraft' in Yorkshire.
    18 May 2018, 10:16 am
  • 3 minutes 54 seconds
    03c. Debtor's Prison
    Find out more about the life of prisoners and the conditions of York's Debtor's Prison.
    18 May 2018, 10:16 am
  • 3 minutes 36 seconds
    03b. Cliffords Tower
    Learn more about the massacre of York's Jewish community in 1190.
    18 May 2018, 10:15 am
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