Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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1000 Years of Justice at York Castle
York Castle has been a site of justi...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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After The Romans
The period of York's history from 40...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- Royal Station Hotel
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Military Belt Fitting
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Jewbury Cemetery
- The First Minster
- The Mystery Plays
- Margaret Clitherow
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- Central Methodist Chapel
- The Shambles
- Teaching the Poor
- The Norman Abbey
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- York in the fifteenth Century