Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Norman
When York was conquered by William,...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Treasurer's House
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- The Medieval Abbey
- Bronze weights
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- The Red Tower
- King Richard III and York
- Sixties York
- A New University
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- The Shambles
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- Dick Turpin
- New Earswick
- Statue of the God Mars