Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- York's Airfield
- Victoria Bar
- The New Theatre
- The End of the Abbey
- Monk Bar
- The Mystery Plays
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- King Richard II and York
- The Shambles
- Micklegate Bar
- A Pipkin
- Water Lanes
- Alcuin of York
- Medieval Chamber Pot