Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- Viking Male Grooming
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Barker Tower
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- The County Court House
- York in the fifteenth Century
- George Leeman
- St William's Shrine
- Royal Station Hotel
- Crest of York St John College
- Viking Sword Pommel
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- Alcuin of York
- Central Methodist Chapel
- The 1190 Massacre
- Our Lady's Row