Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Water Lanes
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Margaret Clitherow
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- Monk Bar
- Crest of York St John College
- Bronze weights
- Cinema Comes to York
- The Medieval Castle
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- York and the Holocaust
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- George Leeman
- Bootham School