Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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1000 Years of Justice at York Castle
York Castle has been a site of justi...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Is York Cursed?
- The Minster after the Reformation
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- The York Hoard
- The Medieval Abbey
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Guy Fawkes
- The County Court House
- Skeldergate Bridge
- Bootham Bar
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Fire in the Minster
- Mithras and Arimanius
- King Edward III and York
- York and the Holocaust
- George Leeman
- King Edward I and York
- The Victorian Prison Building