Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Rowntree Park
- Lendal Tower
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- The Minster after the Reformation
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- The Medieval Abbey
- Constantius Chlorus
- All Saints Church, North Street
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- The Greyfriars
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- Statue of an Athlete
- Guy Fawkes
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- Vikings and Christianity
- The Medieval Minster
- Bones of a Roman Combatant