Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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York's Jewish History - An Audio Trail
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- The 1190 Massacre
- New Shopping Centres
- The Battle of the Standard
- All Saints Church, North Street
- Is York Cursed?
- York's Airfield
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Bootham Bar
- The York Helmet
- The New Theatre
- A New University
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- The Norman Abbey
- The White Rose of York
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- King Edward III and York