Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Life in Medieval York
In the Middle Ages, York was home to...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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A Jewish History Audio Tour
This Trail is produced by IPUP, The...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Mary Ward
- Our Lady's Row
- Lendal Tower
- York Art Gallery
- Judges Lodging
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- St Crux's Church
- Gold Arm Ring
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Church of St Wilfrid
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- First World War York
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- The Guildhall
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'