Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- The 1190 Massacre
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Barker Tower
- Statue of the God Mars
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- York and the Holocaust
- Crest of York St John College
- A Pipkin
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Micklegate Bar
- Cinema Comes to York
- Dick Turpin
- The Black Death
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Medieval Prisons
- Viking Male Grooming
- St Crux's Church