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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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Military Belt Fitting
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Stonegate
- The Abbot's House
- Gold Arm Ring
- The Horn of Ulf
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Guy Fawkes
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Walmgate Bar
- The First Railway Station
- New Earswick
- A New Walk
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- Jewbury Cemetery
- Transport Moves On
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- 62 Low Petergate