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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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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1000 Years of Justice at York Castle
York Castle has been a site of justi...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Lendal Bridge
- New Earswick
- The York Hoard
- Margaret Clitherow
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- York Castle Museum
- Fairfax House
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Teaching the Poor
- The George Fox Incident
- Fishergate Bar
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- Walmgate Bar
- Scarborough Bridge
- Church of St Olave
- 62 Low Petergate