Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York Central Library
- Inscription to Hecules
- The County Court House
- Alcuin of York
- Rowntree Park
- The Railway Institute
- The Cawood Sword
- The Greyfriars
- York in the fifteenth Century
- King Edward II and York
- The First Railway Station
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- Mithras and Arimanius