Trails guide the public through York's history and heritage
Posted on 24 August 2012
The trails and the accompanying leaflets and apps will give residents and visitors a new, informative and entertaining perspective of York's cityscape
Professor Helen Weinstein
To inaugurate the trails, the Director of the University’s Institute of Public Understanding of the Past (IPUP), Professor Helen Weinstein will lead free guided walks around York on Sunday 26 August. The project is a partnership with York Museums Trust which is publishing the trail maps and the accompanying audio guides.
Professor Weinstein says “The trails and the accompanying leaflets and apps will give residents and visitors a new, informative and entertaining perspective of York's cityscape. They contain scripted trails using audio and photographs that are designed to inspire a deeper knowledge of the artefacts in the city’s museums and heritage sites and enable people to link them to what they can see on the streets today.”
The research was conducted by IPUP intern postgraduate students who used the expertise of Curators at the York Museums Trust as well as the knowledge of City Archaeologist, John Oxley, who narrates the apps.
Professor Weinstein will lead the free 90-minute walking tours on Sunday 26 August featuring contributions from IPUP researcher interns at strategic points on the routes. Everyone is welcome to join the walks which start from the steps of the Yorkshire Museum and neither bookings nor tickets are necessary. The subjects of the trails and audio guides are Roman History at 11am, Jewish History at 2pm, and York's Experience of the Great War at 4pm.
Further trails are planned in partnership with the York Museums Trust. These include trails on Viking and Medieval York which should be launched this autumn while Georgian and Victorian trails are due to follow next year.
Notes to editors:
- The podcasts will be available from Sunday on www.youtube.com/user/Historyworks
- All the trails are going to be freely available from the historyofyork website here: www.historyofyork.org.uk
- For further information about York Museums Trust go to www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk
- For further information about IPUP go to www.york.ac.uk/ipup/
- IPUP worked with two organisations to develop the apps - SUMO on the technology and design, and HISTORYWORKS to create and record the scripts and produce the sound and photographic illustrations.
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