Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Ouse Bridge
- 62 Low Petergate
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- The First Minster
- St Crux's Church
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Guy Fawkes
- King Richard II and York
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Second World War York
- Inscription to Hecules
- Vikings and Christianity
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- The Norman Minster
- The Cawood Sword
- Rebuilt in Stone
- York Garrison
- George Leeman