What It Was Really Like to Walk Through Medieval York in 1380 | History for Sleep

Close your eyes. It is the evening of Corpus Christi, 1380, and England's second city is about to reveal its secrets. Step through Micklegate Bar into medieval York at its most extraordinary hour. The Mystery Plays have ended at their forty-eighth station, the cathedral bells are ringing for vespers, and the city is slowly settling into the long blue northern dusk. Walk the Shambles as butchers close their stalls. Follow the vicars choral toward York Minster. Watch the wool merchants tally their accounts on the River Ouse as the last barges unload. This immersive historical documentary brings fourteenth-century York to life, its ancient walls, its forty parish churches, its guild pageants, and the thousands of souls who called it home in the shadow of the Black Death. A slow, atmospheric journey through one of medieval England's most remarkable cities.