Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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After the Siege
In July of 1644 York was in a state...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Lendal Tower
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- Alcuin of York
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- Viking Male Grooming
- Skeldergate Bridge
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- York Bombed
- Treasurer's House
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- The Railway Institute
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- Rowntree Park
- The Council of Arles