Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Mystery Plays
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- York Union Gas Works
- New Earswick
- The White Rose of York
- The Medieval Castle
- St William's Shrine
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- York Railway Station
- Roman Head Pot
- York St John in the 20th Century
- Fire in the Minster
- The Council of Arles
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Margaret Clitherow
- Bootham Bar
- King Edward I and York
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers