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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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Judges Lodging
- King Edward III and York
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- The Bar Convent
- The Red Tower
- View from Station Rise
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- Holy Trinity Church
- St Crux's Church
- The Female Prison
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The Roman Fortress
- York and the Holocaust
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- St Columba's United Reformed Church