Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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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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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Anglian Carving
- Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Fire in the Minster
- Roman Gods and Goddesses
- The New Theatre
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The Debtors' Prison
- King Richard II and York
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- The Greyfriars
- The Basilica
- Is York Cursed?
- York's Coat of Arms
- Teaching the Poor
- The Roman Fortress
- The York Helmet