Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Fire in the Minster
- King Edward III and York
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Margaret Clitherow
- Judges Lodging
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- The York Observatory
- Anglian Carving
- Bronze weights
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- All Saints Church, North Street
- The Black Death
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Norman Window Frame
- John Carr - Architect