Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- A New University
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- The Medieval Minster
- Minster Library
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- The York Observatory
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- Norman Window Frame
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The Victorian Prison Building
- The Cawood Sword
- Anglian Carving
- Margaret Clitherow
- The Debtors' Prison
- The Basilica
- York Central Library
- Lendal Bridge