The site where the York Castle Museum now stands has been a place of justice and imprisonment for around 1,000 years. Visit the Debtors’ prison building, and the Prison Experience displays and find out about the poor sanitary arrangements, the punishments and the exercise which felons faced every day.

The tour is followed by the opportunity to handle original prison objects from the past two centuries.

Free with admission – this event has now sold out.

This event is part of The Big City Read 2017.