Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- De Grey Rooms
- Gold Arm Ring
- Inscription to Hecules
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Dick Turpin
- The New Theatre
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- The York Observatory
- Church of St Wilfrid
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- Guy Fawkes
- The County Court House
- Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers
- The Roman Fortress