Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Lendal Tower
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- Margaret Clitherow
- The Retreat
- York and the Holocaust
- King Edward I and York
- Is York Cursed?
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- Daniel Defoe's York
- The Battle of the Standard
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Skeldergate Bridge
- York Railway Station
- The Cawood Sword
- Viking Silk Cap
- Medieval Prisons
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York