Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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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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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bootham School
- Viking Silk Cap
- The Medieval Castle
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- The County Court House
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- The Mansion House
- Teaching the Poor
- Medieval Prisons
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Lendal Tower
- York St John in the 20th Century
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- St William's Shrine
- The York Helmet