York’s Most Famous Is Hiding Something Nobody Talks About

York’s Shambles looks almost impossibly picturesque: crooked medieval buildings leaning over a narrow cobbled street that seems frozen in time. But the beautiful street people see today hides a far darker past, when butcher shops and slaughterhouses filled these buildings, blood and waste ran through the cobbled channel, and secret rooms concealed Catholic priests from the authorities. Then there is the story of the woman who lived here, whose arrest led to one of the most brutal punishments Tudor England could impose. Much of the evidence is still standing in plain sight, passed by thousands of visitors who have no idea what they are looking at. Subscribe and Discover the forgotten history of the Shambles, and its stories hiding across Europe. 0:00 The Butcher's Street Hidden in Plain Sight 3:23 Life Behind the Shopfronts 6:01 Deceptive Architecture and Centuries of Change 9:46 The Price of Preserving Heritage 12:23 The Tragic Story of Margaret Clitherow