Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York Garrison
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Water Lanes
- Silver Strap Ends
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- New Earswick
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Alcuin of York
- The York Observatory
- The Railway Institute
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- The 1190 Massacre
- The New Theatre
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- A Pipkin