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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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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Hospitium
- The Greyfriars
- Anglian Carving
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Bronze weights
- Our Lady's Row
- Medieval Prisons
- Statue of Napoleon
- New Shopping Centres
- The Norman Castle
- Is York Cursed?
- Rowntree Park
- Rebuilt in Stone
- Lendal Tower
- The York Observatory
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- St Crux's Church
- The Horn of Ulf