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31 Days of History: 1954 Prize Winning Cow
“My earliest memories are of being taken to the cattle markets which in those days were in the town. I would have been about 10 years old when my dad took me.”
Survey reveals extent of Heritage crimes
A new survey reveals the extent of crimes against England’s most precious historic buildings, showing last year’s graffiti at Clifford’s Tower is far from an isolated case.
31 Days of History: Red Rhino Records
From the late 1970s until 1988 York was home to one of the most successful and nationally influential underground record labels in the country.
31 Days of History: Mass suicide in the castle
Today in 1190 the history of York changed forever and became one of the most anti-semetic places in the world
31 Days of History: York at war
Today we set the scene of a York under threat of invasion, a York living on rations with its men away at war, a York during World War II.
31 days of History: York before York
How do we think about York before York? About history before history? Before the founding of Eboracum in AD 71 by the Romans, does it even make sense to talk about York? One&Other explore the prehistory of our city.
31 Days of History: The Slums of York
Much of York was in poverty at the beginning of the 20th Century, with areas like Hungate and Walmgate living in squalor.
31 Days of History: A Witchy tale
2012 marks four-hundred years since the scandal of the Pendle Witch Trials. Intriguingly one was sentenced and executed in York
31 Days of History: 1930′s Picture Houses
The tales behind many of York’s cinemas dating back from 1911, some of which still remain in the city now.
31 Days of history: York’s WW2 Air raid shelters
Telling the story behind the many air raid shelters still scattered around York today.
Human remains discovered at Minster
Human remains believed to be 800 years old have been discovered by archaeologists at York Minster…
31 Days Of History: Women’s Suffrage in York
“Women, we must do the work ourselves” – Emmeline Pankhurst.
31 Days of History: The deceit of a king
History can at times depend on the imagination. Today, we look at Eric Bloodaxe, the most elusive king in our history – yet easily one of the most famous.
31 Days of History: Cold War Terror
York had a role to play in preparations for an escalation of the cold war, and from 1961 until 1991 the city was home to a rectangular three-storey, semi-buried, reinforced concrete nerve-centre.
31 days of History: A Crushing Death
Today’s 31 Days of York History looks at one of the most prolific tortures of our city’s history.
31 Days of History: York in the time of cholera
As cholera ravaged much of Asia and Europe in the early nineteenth century, gradually creeping closer and closer to Britain, and the townsfolk of York began to grow ever more concerned at the prospect of an epidemic in the city.
