Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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1000 Years of Justice at York Castle
York Castle has been a site of justi...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- The County Court House
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Bootham Bar
- The Medieval Minster
- The End of the Abbey
- Viking Male Grooming
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- Mary Ward
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Elizabeth Boardingham
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- The Horn of Ulf