Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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1000 Years of Justice at York Castle
York Castle has been a site of justi...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Walmgate Bar
- The County Court House
- The York Observatory
- Teaching the Poor
- York St John in the 20th Century
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Second World War York
- Rowntree Park
- York Garrison
- Military Belt Fitting
- The Debtors' Prison
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- The First Railway Station
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Church of St Olave
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning