Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Skeldergate Bridge
- Sixties York
- Roman Head Pot
- The Shambles
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- St Leonard's Hospital
- The Hospitium
- Viking Sword Pommel
- Ripon College for Women
- Feeding Roman York
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- First World War York
- Bootham Bar