Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Multangular Tower
- Military Belt Fitting
- Guy Fawkes
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- The Assembly Rooms
- Walmgate Bar
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- The New Theatre
- Medieval Prisons
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- York and the Holocaust
- The Norman Castle
- Minster Library
- Amber Bead Workshop
- Margaret Clitherow
- Alcuin of York