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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A Jewish History Audio Tour
This Trail is produced by IPUP, The...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Medieval Minster
- York Castle Museum
- Teaching the Poor
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- The Black Death
- Vikings and Christianity
- York Railway Station
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- The End of the Abbey
- The Horn of Ulf
- Fairfax House
- Walmgate Bar
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- York Bombed
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- St Crux's Church