Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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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 Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Walmgate Bar
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- Roman Gods and Goddesses
- Stonegate
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Margaret Clitherow
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- Monk Bar
- The Multangular Tower
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Anglian Carving
- George Leeman
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Victoria Bar
- Minster Library
- New Shopping Centres
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- The Norman Castle