Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- The George Fox Incident
- Stonegate
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- Inscription to Hecules
- First World War York
- Margaret Clitherow
- The End of the Abbey
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Monk Bar
- The York Helmet
- Statue of the God Mars
- The New Theatre
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- York Castle Museum
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- Micklegate Bar