Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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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...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Is York Cursed?
- Bone Trial Piece
- Cinema Comes to York
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Mary Ward
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- First World War Memorial
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Treasurer's House
- Norman Window Frame
- The End of the Abbey
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- The County Court House
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Medieval Prisons