Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Assembly Rooms
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- The Medieval Castle
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Elizabeth Boardingham
- York St John in the 20th Century
- George Leeman
- Jubbergate
- Clifford's Tower
- A New University
- The Bar Convent
- The Black Death
- Mary Ward
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- St Leonard's Hospital
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Church of All Saints Pavement