Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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The Expanding City
As York grew during the 20th century...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Guy Fawkes
- Statue of an Athlete
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Bronze weights
- Royal Station Hotel
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Clifford's Tower
- New Earswick
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Eric Bloodaxe
- The Battle of the Standard
- The End of the Abbey
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- The Debtors' Prison
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- Cinema Comes to York