Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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The Romans Arrive
York ’s history truly be...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Industrial Upheaval
- Teaching the Poor
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Statue of Napoleon
- The Black Death
- Is York Cursed?
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Daniel Defoe's York
- King's Manor - Victorian
- Inscription to Hecules
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- The Shambles
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- Medieval Prisons