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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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Rowntree Park
- The Medieval Minster
- Minster Library
- Norman Window Frame
- The Debtors' Prison
- Is York Cursed?
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- The Greyfriars
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- The First Minster
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- York Castle Museum
- The Minster after the Reformation
- The End of the Abbey
- The Battle of the Standard
- Gold Arm Ring