Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Ouse Bridge
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- York's Airfield
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Guy Fawkes
- A New University
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Viking Sword Pommel
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- First World War Memorial
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- Aldwark Synagogue
- Margaret Clitherow
- Ripon College for Women
- Clifford's Tower