Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- The Hospitium
- Fire in the Minster
- The Retreat
- The White Rose of York
- First World War Memorial
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- A Pipkin
- Alcuin of York
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- Viking Coins
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- Second World War York
- Mithras and Arimanius
- The County Court House