About This Event

A ghost walk about the women. York: Women, Witches & Warriors Ghost Walk — Part I Selected Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 7:30PM When the bells hush and the streets begin to shimmer, the women of York rise. Come walk with them. Led by storyteller and performer Sasha Elizabeth Parker, Women, Witches & Warriors is an intimate, one-woman immersive ghost walk through the shadowed lanes, ancient walls and golden-lit corners of York. Part theatre. Part history. Part ghost story. Part whispered secret. Here, truth and myth dance closely together. This is not a tour. This is an encounter. Meet the women who shaped York — through power, passion, defiance, devotion and, sometimes, death. ✨ Cartimandua, the Celtic queen who kept the peace — until love turned to war. ✨ Julia Domna, Roman empress, political force and architect of her own destiny. ✨ The Ivory Bangle Lady, whose ancient resting place still speaks across the centuries. ✨ Lady Isabel German, who chose a life enclosed in faith. ✨ Minerva, goddess of wisdom and drama — whose presence lingers where she is remembered… or forgotten. ✨ Mary Jane Sutherland, whose voice emerges from York’s former red-light district — a woman history tried to silence. ✨ Josephine Butler, the formidable reformer who fought fiercely for women’s rights over their own bodies. ✨ Sarah Coggles and Victoria Bage, whose more recent lives leave their own echoes in the city. ✨ Jennet Preston, condemned as a witch — and leaving you to decide where truth ends and superstition begins. ✨ Margaret Clitherow, York’s martyr, whose choice still carries weight centuries later. ✨ Anne Lister — Gentleman Jack — who loved, lived and wrote unapologetically. ✨ Mary Ellen Best, the artist who found beauty in the quietest corners of life — even on rain-soaked days. Each step is a thread. Each woman, a story. Each story, a mirror.

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