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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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Bar Convent
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- New Earswick
- The Railway Institute
- Barker Tower
- First World War Memorial
- Silver Strap Ends
- View from Station Rise
- The Debtors' Prison
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- York's Coat of Arms
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- The Norman Abbey
- The White Rose of York
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York