Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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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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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Greyfriars
- Anglian Carving
- Olive Oil Container
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- The Red Tower
- Church of St Helen
- Clifford's Tower
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Eric Bloodaxe
- York's Airfield
- Is York Cursed?
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Fire in the Minster
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- The Cawood Sword
- The Minster in Viking Times