Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- York St John in the 20th Century
- Anglian Cross
- Sixties York
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- Micklegate Bar
- The York Helmet
- Amber Bead Workshop
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- Bronze weights
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- The Bar Convent
- King Richard II and York
- Barley Hall
- The Guildhall