Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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Life in Medieval York
In the Middle Ages, York was home to...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- The Hospitium
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- New Earswick
- Is York Cursed?
- Our Lady's Row
- The End of the Abbey
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Viking Silk Cap
- Monk Bar
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- York Garrison
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- A New University
- George Leeman
- York and the Holocaust