Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The County Court House
- The First Minster
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- King Edward I and York
- De Grey Rooms
- The First Railway Station
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- The York Observatory
- York's Airfield
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- A New Vision For York
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- The 1190 Massacre
- York and the Holocaust
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- The Greyfriars
- William Etty, Artist
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions