Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Hospitium
- Crest of York St John College
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- The Norman Castle
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- Holy Trinity Church
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Bootham School
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Barley Hall
- Yorkshire Museum
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- John Carr - Architect
- York Castle Museum
- The First Minster
- The Multangular Tower
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre