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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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- The Medieval Minster
- A New Walk
- The Mansion House
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Royal Station Hotel
- York in the fifteenth Century
- The End of the Abbey
- The Railway Institute
- Gold Arm Ring
- Church of St Olave
- Amber Bead Workshop
- St Leonard's Hospital
- King Richard III and York
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- The Norman House