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The external links below may be of interest to users of this site. Please note that the links in the headings take you to the sites of other organisations, for which we can take no responsibility.
Since 1946 its members had the vision 'Promoting heritage, shaping tomorrow'. The blue plaque pictured at the foot of this page is one of the Trust's 150 or so in York. This page in the Archive shows many of York's historic streets.
The Guilds of York have presented the York Mystery Plays on wagons in the streets of the city in several four-yearly cycles, and photos are on this website. The most recent production was in June 2022; the next is 28 June and 5 July 2026.
The City Archive held in York Explore, Library Square, has some Mystery Play material, such as this painting by historian Eileen White, whose general history of the Mystery Plays, published by YAYAS, is one of the books held in the NCEM archive. The Archive launched the 'York 800' exhibition described in this page. 
In its current location since 1744, the Theatre was the venue for the Mystery Plays in 1992 and 1996. In 2012 YTR produced the Plays in Museum Gardens.
The original funder of this website, with Millennium money.
The cathedral at the heart of York, and the setting of the Millennium production and 2016 production. Dean's Park is a regular location for the wagon plays and in 2021 A Resurrection for York. Interior below right, from archive.
The York Waits were formed in the 1970s, shortly after the inaugural York Early Music Festival, to play music and instruments of the medieval and renaissance periods and do so by recreating the official city band of York as it was in the 15th-17th centuries. Here pictured outside York Minster.
The National Centre for Early Music
Home of the Mystery Play Archive, of Early Music Festivals and of all sorts of music. Information on St Margaret's church here.
York Mystery Plays Supporters Trust
A membership group of enthusiasts and actors which supports productions of the Plays. They produced in December 2019 A Nativity for York; in July 2021 A Resurrection for York; in December 2022 a different Nativity; in June 2023 a Baptism; in June 2024 a Creation and Fall; in December 2024 a Nativity in three suburban locations; and in December 2025 another Nativity in four churches.The Taborers' Society, one of the bands accompanying Mystery Play wagons in 2022 and on 28 June 2026.
Acoustic Research site supported by the British Academy
Visit York The site for York tourism. If you want some images of the city, search 'York streets' in the archive
Opened in 1830 on the site of St Mary's Abbey, by the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, which opened Museum Gardens. The Gardens and Abbey ruins enabled the 1951 Plays open air revival. The Museum is now run by charity York Museums Trust, partners in the 2012 Museum Gardens production.
York Archaeology (YAT) runs Jorvik Viking Centre, Barley Hall, DIG, Micklegate Bar Museum and Monk Bar Museum. Friends of YAT have free entry to all five attractions and a programme of talks and visits. Among YAT publications is Nicola Rogers' 2012 Medieval Craft and Mystery, about the Guilds of York and their medieval performances of the Plays. It is at the foot of this Archive page on books.
York Settlement Community Players
Set up in 1919, this still-thriving York acting group gave Judi Dench her first taste of Mystery Play performance.
The Film Archive has many films about York, and about the Mystery Plays and other drama. For instance, a 60 minute film made by Patrick Olsen about the 1973 Mystery Plays: Film ID 2041.
Yorkshire Architectural and York Archaeological Society
Founded in 1842 to explore civic and ecclesiastical history. Their 2017 York Historian has a major article about York Mystery Plays.
Association of Voluntary Guides to York
This set of expert guides began leading daily free tours in York the same year as the modern Mystery Plays were revived. If you join a walk, ask your guide about the Plays!
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