Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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The End of Roman York
Eboracum (Roman York) remained an i...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- York St John in the 20th Century
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- The Shambles
- Eric Bloodaxe
- The Minster after the Reformation
- The Abbot's House
- 62 Low Petergate
- The Assembly Rooms
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Roman Head Pot
- King Edward II and York
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Church of St Olave
- Central Methodist Chapel
- Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Crest of York St John College