Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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The Expanding City
As York grew during the 20th century...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Guy Fawkes
- Medieval Prisons
- St William's Shrine
- Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- The Greyfriars
- Margaret Clitherow
- Victoria Bar
- York and the Holocaust
- De Grey Rooms
- The Black Death
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Teaching the Poor