Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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Norman
When York was conquered by William,...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Minster Library
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- Viking Silk Cap
- The Medieval Abbey
- York Bombed
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- York and the Holocaust
- The White Rose of York
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- Barley Hall
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- The Abbot's House
- York Union Gas Works
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head