Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bootham Bar
- Viking Silk Cap
- Statue of the God Mars
- Bootham School
- Guy Fawkes
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- The Medieval Abbey
- York Bombed
- St Leonard's Hospital
- The Railway Institute
- The First Minster
- York Art Gallery
- York Union Gas Works
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- Central Methodist Chapel
- Church of St Helen