Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
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After The Romans
The period of York's history from 40...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Eric Bloodaxe
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- The Battle of the Standard
- Inscription to Hecules
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- A New Walk
- Dick Turpin
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- Fishergate Bar
- Ripon College for Women
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- View from Station Rise
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- The Guildhall
- Bootham Bar