Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Military Belt Fitting
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- View from Station Rise
- Sixties York
- York and the Holocaust
- The Horn of Ulf
- The Greyfriars
- York Union Gas Works
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Elizabeth Boardingham
- The York Hoard
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- The Assembly Rooms
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- Inscription from Fortress Gate