History School & College Tours to York
York is an enchanting, historical and timeless city which is why it is a new up-and-coming destination for our school history tours. With history spanning throughout two thousand years, the city of York offers endless educational visits. York’s Roman, Viking and Medieval historic heritage can be seen just by walking through the city’s famous shambles, by visiting the Jorvik Viking Centre to learn about the Viking-age, and York’s Castle Museum to see how people used to live through the thousands of household objects on show the by the recreations of rooms, shops, streets and prison cells. York is steeped with history and easily accessible from all the points in the UK an ideal study trip for school groups.
History Excursions
- Jorvik - Welcoming 15 million visitors over the past 25 years, visitors can journey through the reconstruction of Viking-Age streets, as they would have been in the year AD975.
- York Castle Museum - Get ready to take a tantalising trip through time as you step into York Castle Museum's world-famous recreated Victorian street, Kirkgate.
- York Minister - The largest Medieval Gothic cathedral north of the Alps and a treasure house of 800 years of stained glass.
