Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York Art Gallery
- York Garrison
- Is York Cursed?
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Fire in the Minster
- The Black Death
- John Carr - Architect
- Medieval Prisons
- Church of St Olave
- Industrial Upheaval
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers
- First World War York
- Viking Silk Cap
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Sixties York
- Victoria Bar
- Norman Window Frame