Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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The Expanding City
As York grew during the 20th century...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Fire in the Minster
- King Edward II and York
- Amber Bead Workshop
- Rebuilt in Stone
- George Leeman
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Church of St Helen
- The Red Tower
- York and the Holocaust
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- All Saints Church, North Street
- Central Methodist Chapel
- The Victorian Prison Building