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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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Statue of an Athlete
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- The Retreat
- Inscription from Fortress Gate
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- Anglian Cross
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Ripon College for Women
- York Art Gallery
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- St Crux's Church
- The Minster in Viking Times
- York Union Gas Works
- The Norman Abbey