Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The First Railway Station
- Ouse Bridge
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- Statue of Napoleon
- King Edward I and York
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- George Leeman
- York St John in the 20th Century
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Vikings and Christianity
- The First Minster
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- York Railway Station
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- Constantius Chlorus
- Central Methodist Chapel