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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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Life in Medieval York
In the Middle Ages, York was home to...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Lendal Tower
- Teaching the Poor
- York Art Gallery
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- The Horn of Ulf
- Eric Bloodaxe
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Bootham School
- York in the fifteenth Century
- The End of the Abbey
- Viking Silk Cap
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Treasurer's House
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- King Richard III and York