Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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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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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Guy Fawkes
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- Viking Silk Cap
- Walmgate Bar
- The Medieval Castle
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Teaching the Poor
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- Bronze weights
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- York and the Holocaust
- The Cawood Sword
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- The Retreat
- St Leonard's Hospital