Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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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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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- St Leonard's Hospital
- The York Helmet
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- The Basilica
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- St William's Shrine
- The George Fox Incident
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- George Leeman
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- York Art Gallery
- York Bombed
- Roman Chimney Pot
- Eric Bloodaxe
- Industrial Upheaval
- King Edward III and York