Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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The Expanding City
As York grew during the 20th century...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- St Crux's Church
- York Bombed
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- The Minster in Viking Times
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Middleham Jewel
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Church of St Olave
- A Pipkin
- Yorkshire Museum
- Military Belt Fitting
- Statue of Napoleon
- Teaching the Poor
- York and the Holocaust
- Guy Fawkes
- The Railway King: George Hudson