Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Dick Turpin
- Jewbury Cemetery
- Feeding Roman York
- York in the fifteenth Century
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- Statue of Napoleon
- New Earswick
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- The Medieval Abbey
- The White Rose of York
- The Cawood Sword
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- The First Minster
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- Rebuilt in Stone
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Vikings and Christianity