Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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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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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Bootham Bar
- The County Court House
- Norman Window Frame
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- King Richard III and York
- Industrial Upheaval
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Roman Gods and Goddesses
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- The York Observatory
- The York Hoard
- The Medieval Minster
- The Guildhall