Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- York St John in the 20th Century
- Aldwark Synagogue
- Treasurer's House
- Skeldergate Bridge
- The York Helmet
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- The Abbot's House
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- York Union Gas Works
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Teaching the Poor
- Bronze weights