Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- York St John in the 20th Century
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- Guy Fawkes
- Church of St Helen
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- Alcuin of York
- Teaching the Poor
- Yorkshire Museum
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- York's Airfield
- The New Theatre
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Sixties York