Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- John Carr - Architect
- First World War York
- William Etty, Artist
- Industrial Upheaval
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Statue of Napoleon
- York Bombed
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- The York Hoard
- Micklegate Bar
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- The Minster after the Reformation
- The Medieval Minster
- Cinema Comes to York
- The Female Prison
- Anglian Carving