Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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After The Romans
The period of York's history from 40...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Female Prison
- Medieval Prisons
- Church of St Olave
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- The Hospitium
- Anglian Carving
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Skeldergate Bridge
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- Treasurer's House
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom