Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Fairfax House
- Viking Boot
- Cinema Comes to York
- Margaret Clitherow
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- St William's Shrine
- The George Fox Incident
- York in the fifteenth Century
- The Bar Convent
- York St John in the 20th Century
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- Lendal Tower
- York and the Holocaust
- Church of St Helen
- The Red Tower
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Hair of a Roman Girl