Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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After The Romans
The period of York's history from 40...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- The Battle of the Standard
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- The Cawood Sword
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- Guy Fawkes
- Eric Bloodaxe
- The Mystery Plays
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- Mithras and Arimanius
- York's Airfield
- Constantius Chlorus
- Second World War York
- St William's Shrine
- York's first historian: Francis Drake