Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- A New University
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- 62 Low Petergate
- Sixties York
- Margaret Clitherow
- Ouse Bridge
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- York in the fifteenth Century
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- The Female Prison
- Vikings and Christianity
- De Grey Rooms
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- The George Fox Incident
- The York Observatory
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning