Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Rebellion and Revenge
To make room for one of his castles,...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bone Trial Piece
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- Fire in the Minster
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Olive Oil Container
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- Norman Window Frame
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- King Edward I and York
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- Scarborough Bridge
- The Shambles
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- York's Medieval Synagogue