Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Norman Abbey
- King's Manor - Victorian
- William Etty, Artist
- A New Vision For York
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- Dick Turpin
- York St John in the 20th Century
- York Union Gas Works
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The Medieval Minster
- York and the Holocaust
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- York Garrison
- Vikings and Christianity