Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Water Lanes
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Viking Male Grooming
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Constantius Chlorus
- York St John in the 20th Century
- The Multangular Tower
- The Norman Castle
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- King Richard II and York
- Church of St Helen
- The Mystery Plays
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- The End of the Abbey
- Clifford's Tower