Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- The Debtors' Prison
- King Edward II and York
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- The First Railway Station
- Jubbergate
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- Medieval Prisons
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Statue of an Athlete