Out and about in York

PLANNING a holiday in or close to North Yorkshire? Don’t miss these attractions in York  ...

The Georgian passion for fashion at Fairfax House: Some of the finest accessories of the 18th century are on display in a major fashion exhibition – Head to Toe: Accessorising the Georgians – which runs until November. Accessories dating from 1700 to 1820 and featuring shoes, fans, hats, waistcoats, garters, stockings, buttons, and gloves. Male accessories form a key part of the exhibition, revealing that vanity and the pursuit of fashion was not something for women only. Other key pieces include a set of patches worn to conceal smallpox marks on the face, and even eyebrows made from mouse hair.

Richard III Experience at Monk Bar, and Henry VII Experience at Micklegate Bar: Two attractions about the last Plantagenet monarch, the much-maligned Richard III, and the first Tudor king, Henry VII.  Each attraction within one of York’s historic Bars – gateways into the city – covering the period from Richard III’s rise to power at the end of the Wars of the Roses and his subsequent death at the Battle of Bosworth, to the rise of his nemesis, Henry VII, including stories of medicine, health and life within late medieval and early Tudor York.

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