Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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Norman
When York was conquered by William,...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Holy Trinity Church
- The Bar Convent
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- The Guildhall
- The Medieval Minster
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- Micklegate Bar
- The York Observatory
- The 1190 Massacre
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- De Grey Rooms
- Statue of an Athlete
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Roman Gods and Goddesses
- York's first historian: Francis Drake