Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Anglian Carving
- The Debtors' Prison
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- John Carr - Architect
- Holy Trinity Church
- The Multangular Tower
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Fishergate Bar
- Dick Turpin
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Fire in the Minster
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- Cinema Comes to York
- The Black Death
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- Church of St Helen
- New Earswick