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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