Cries of York and Music of a Different Era

If you walk around the city streets today you are either entranced or battered by the amplified offerings of the buskers that abound. But what would 18th or 19th-century ears have heard? Perhaps not only music of the age but also cries of vendors and others working the streets, without the competition of cars, planes and other intrusions from the 21st century.

Professor Rachel Cowgill from York University and Director of the Humanities Research Centre will take us back to a different and intriguing era of sounds.

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