9 www.historyofyork.org.uk User Guide Download the This walking trail will lead you around York’s historic FREE Audio Tour cityscape, exploring some of its forgotten stories. At each of the stops along the trail, listen along to the audio narrative provided. These can be accessed via an app or a podcast. This trail lasts approximately 90 minutes. Experiencing The App The Great War: • The Web App created to use en route can be accessed via your web-enabled mobile phone, for either iphone York in World War One or android. Details are available on the web at: www.historyofyork.org.uk 5th Battalion York and Lancaster soldiers A Walking Trail The Podcast • Podcast downloadable in MP3 format available on the  DARK SHADOWS IN THE SKIES OF YORK: Discover How This Global ‘Experiencing The Great War: web at: www.audioboo.fm/historyworks THE ZEPPELIN RAIDS, 1916 – PEASHOLME GREEN Conflict Affected Local Lives York in World War One’ is a walking This leaflet and audio podcast are also available at: Walk along Peasholme Green until you reach the entrance trail around historic York which to The New School House Gallery, where you’ll find www.youtube.com/user/historyworks/videos a garden. In May 1916 the skies of York darkened with explores a series of locations within the ancient city walls and the stories The Leaflet & More Information the distinctive shadow of the Zeppelin airship. Here, at • To find this leaflet, more information on the Trail, Peasholme Green, some of the worst casualties were they can tell us about York and the or if you would like to access the scripts, go to inflicted. In total nine people were killed and twenty-seven people who lived here during The www.historyworks.tv © Historyworks 2012. injured in these air-raids. Great War. Further Trails We usually think about this conflict as one that • Jewish History and Roman trails also available. 10 happened overseas, in the trenches of Flanders, but • Viking, Medieval, and Georgian trails coming soon.  ARMISTICE AND this trail will illustrate how the war had an impact on AFTERMATH – DEAN’S PARK York and its citizens. Along the trail we will discover This trail and accompanying podcast have been devised stories of war horses, Zeppelin air raids, wounded and produced by Helen Weinstein, IPUP Director, The  Alongside the Minster, continue soldiers back from the front, enemy aliens, and Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past, to across Dean’s Park towards the war conscientious objectors. whom all suggestions for revisions should be directed memorial: a series of stone arches. ([email protected]). Expertise and Narration of the At the announcement of the War’s The stories on the trail are the result of intensive trails by the York City Archaeologist, John Oxley. end in 1918, the Minster’s bells rang research into York’s First World War history by out for the first time in five researchers across academic disciplines, joining together IPUP thanks: intern researchers Sarah Drewell, Sam Johnson, Rachel Kearsey, Katherine Keljik, Bekah Lee, material drawn from archives, alongside insights from Ed Morrow, Catherine Oakley, Sebastian Owen, Tom Ratcliffe, Jennifer Tonkins, Marie Twomey, Abi Wilson; years. Cheering crowds gathered here to celebrate, and a City Archaeologist John Oxley for expertise and narration; Michael Woodward, Andrew Morrison, and service of thanksgiving was held. The price paid by the city artefacts in York Castle Museum’s collection, and York’s John Hoyland of York Museums Trust; Graham Relton at The Yorkshire Film Archive; Ian Martindale for historic centre to tell the global story of The Great War photography; Jon Calver for audio; and the podcast donated by the media team at Historyworks. and its citizens was high. Thousands never returned, and for Cover Image: Recruits in formations, possibly on Skeldergate Bridge in York. Inside Leaf Image: 5th Battalion from a local perspective. soldiers with rifles. Both stills taken from footage entitled ‘5th Battalion York and Lancaster aka Barnsley those that did, the scars were to last them for the rest of Battalion’. Reproduced by kind permission of Yorkshire Film Archive. Footage available to view online at their lives. For those that stayed, their family lives had Download the free app to find an audio guide, www.yorkshirefilmarchive.com. In partnership with been shattered. York, and the world, had changed forever. interactive map, and photographs of archaeological and historical artefacts from sites along the trail!

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