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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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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Lost Buildings of York
York is celebrated for its medieval...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Is York Cursed?
- The Hospitium
- Statue of the God Mars
- The First Railway Station
- New Shopping Centres
- The Debtors' Prison
- The End of the Abbey
- Guy Fawkes
- John Carr - Architect
- Elizabeth Boardingham
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- The Bar Convent
- York's Coat of Arms
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- A New Walk
- Mary Ward
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier