A lantern-lit commemoration event will take place at Clifford’s Tower on Thursday 15 March to mark the anniversary of the 1190 massacre of an estimated 150 Jewish residents of York.
Baille Hill in York. Was there in 1080
2018 also marks the 950th anniversary of the “Harrying of the North” the largest ever recorded massacre on English soil.
In it, William the Conqueror (broadly French) killed, or allowed to starve, approximately 100,000 people (mostly Anglo Saxons and Scandinavians).
York, which was home to a Norman castle, was badly affected.
Things have, thankfully, tended to get safer since then