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March 20, 2026
A talk by Margaret Scott at Clements Hall
In 1951 Britain celebrated the Festival of Britain, 100 years after the famous Victorian one. Not many people know that York was selected as one of the cities also to have its own Festival. That was when the York Mystery Plays were revived for performance, having famously continued every few years since. Find out about what happened in York in 1951 from Margaret Scott, the archivist of the modern Mystery Plays (held at the National Centre for Early Music).
The Plays will be performed again on wagons this year – the traditional way – on 28 June and 5 July in central York.
Full details here.
Clements Hall