Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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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...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Viking Sword Pommel
- A New Walk
- York Garrison
- Feeding Roman York
- Bootham Bar
- Olive Oil Container
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- The Horn of Ulf
- The George Fox Incident
- Amber Bead Workshop
- York Bombed
- The First Minster
- New Shopping Centres
- Stonegate
- The Medieval Castle
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Gold Finger Ring
- York Art Gallery