Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- The White Rose of York
- Roman Head Pot
- The First Railway Station
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- The Debtors' Prison
- The Multangular Tower
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- The York Observatory
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- The Red Tower
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- The York Hoard
- The Greyfriars
- The Black Death
- The Medieval Abbey