Forthcoming Events10...

02/06/2012 - 02/06/2012

Opening of From Hamlet to Hollywood: the Diamond Jubilee Celebration

The historic costume exhibition reopens with a glittering new makeover. read more

08/06/2012 - 08/06/2012

A Night of Sense and Sensibility

Hollywood comes to Barley Hall with this special summer evening screening of Jane Austen's masterpiece.... read more

More Events

Medieval Manners

Adults went on about table manners five hundred years ago just as they do now. Perhaps there’s something in it after all!

‘Whether you spit near or far, hold your hand before your mouth to hide it.’

‘Do not scratch yourself at the table nor wipe your nose or nostrils.’

‘Thou shalt not laugh nor speak nothing, while thy mouth be full of meat or drink, nor sup thou with great sounding’.

‘If you see your lord drinking, keep silence, without loud laughter, chattering, whispering, joking or other insolence.’

‘Look ye be not caught leaning on the table.’

‘Keep from picking your nose, your teeth, your nails at mealtime.’

Some things never change!


Children's Map of Ground Floor

Barley Hall, 2 Coffee Yard, Off Stonegate, York YO1 8AR, United Kingdom.

© 2008 York Archaeological Trust. All Rights Reserved.