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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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Medieval Prisons
- Church of St Helen
- York and the Holocaust
- York Union Gas Works
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- Monk Bar
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- Margaret Clitherow
- Inscription from Fortress Gate
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- The Mansion House
- Second World War York
- The Horn of Ulf
- Barley Hall
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- The Roman Fortress
- A New University
- Sixties York