Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Church of St Helen
- The York Helmet
- Olive Oil Container
- Cinema Comes to York
- The Cawood Sword
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- New Earswick
- St William's Shrine
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- The Horn of Ulf
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Sixties York