Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The George Fox Incident
- The Abbot's House
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- Silver Strap Ends
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- Inscription to Hecules
- Mary Ward
- The Greyfriars
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- Vikings and Christianity
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Fishergate Bar
- Statue of Napoleon
- A New Walk
- St Columba's United Reformed Church