Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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After The Romans
The period of York's history from 40...
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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A Jewish History Audio Tour
This Trail is produced by IPUP, The...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Victorian Prison Building
- New Shopping Centres
- The Norman Abbey
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- The Female Prison
- William Etty, Artist
- Ouse Bridge
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- The York Hoard
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- Treasurer's House
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- The Railway Institute
- Church of St Helen
- Judges Lodging
- The Medieval Abbey
- The Medieval Castle
- York's first historian: Francis Drake