Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- New Shopping Centres
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- The End of the Abbey
- First World War Memorial
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Central Methodist Chapel
- Statue of an Athlete
- Treasurer's House
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- A New University
- Roman Head Pot
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Vikings and Christianity
- The Greyfriars
- Elizabeth Boardingham