Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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Lost Buildings of York
York is celebrated for its medieval...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Mary Ward
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- Scarborough Bridge
- The Battle of the Standard
- Alcuin of York
- The Medieval Castle
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- Central Methodist Chapel
- York Union Gas Works
- Gold Arm Ring
- Victoria Bar
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- The Basilica
- Holy Trinity Church
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- The Medieval Minster