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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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Rebellion and Revenge
To make room for one of his castles,...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Norman Minster
- The Debtors' Prison
- Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers
- John Carr - Architect
- Central Methodist Chapel
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- Crest of York St John College
- The End of the Abbey
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Bone Trial Piece
- George Leeman
- St Crux's Church
- Anglian Carving
- Viking Male Grooming
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Royal Station Hotel
- The Red Tower