Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Central Methodist Chapel
- Yorkshire Museum
- The Retreat
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- Scarborough Bridge
- The Battle of the Standard
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Rebuilt in Stone
- First World War Memorial
- York Castle Museum
- The Bar Convent
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- York's Airfield
- Bronze weights