Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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Lost Buildings of York
York is celebrated for its medieval...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Margaret Clitherow
- Yorkshire Museum
- Transport Moves On
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Inscription to Hecules
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- Bootham Bar
- Ouse Bridge
- First World War York
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Church of St Helen
- Viking Coins
- View from Station Rise
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse