Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The First Minster
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- Royal Station Hotel
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- York Bombed
- Statue of the God Mars
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- The New Theatre
- Mary Ward
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Statue of an Athlete
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- A New Vision For York
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Micklegate Bar
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- Viking Sword Pommel