Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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The End of Roman York
Eboracum (Roman York) remained an i...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- The County Court House
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- Inscription to Hecules
- The Black Death
- The Medieval Abbey
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- The End of the Abbey
- The Cawood Sword
- Statue of Napoleon
- The Greyfriars
- St Crux's Church
- Church of St Olave
- The Multangular Tower
- Micklegate Bar