Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- The Minster in Viking Times
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- St Crux's Church
- The Debtors' Prison
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- The Bar Convent
- Treasurer's House
- The Victorian Prison Building
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- Ripon College for Women
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Feeding Roman York
- Guy Fawkes
- Ouse Bridge
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- King Edward II and York
- York's Medieval Synagogue