Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- New Earswick
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- Statue of Napoleon
- Viking Coins
- York Central Library
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- Inscription from Fortress Gate
- Vikings and Christianity
- York Railway Station
- Is York Cursed?
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Amber Bead Workshop
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Dick Turpin
- First World War Memorial
- The Black Death
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window