Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- King's Manor - Victorian
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- View from Station Rise
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- The Norman House
- Viking Coins
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- King Richard II and York
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- York and the Holocaust
- Norman Window Frame
- Teaching the Poor
- Stonegate