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Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Rebellion and Revenge
To make room for one of his castles,...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Judges Lodging
- Minster Library
- York and the Holocaust
- The Minster in Viking Times
- Scarborough Bridge
- Medieval Prisons
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Cinema Comes to York
- The York Helmet
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- Jewbury Cemetery
- King Richard II and York
- The 1190 Massacre
- The First Railway Station
- The Hospitium
- Clifford's Tower
- The Victorian Prison Building