Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Church of St Helen
- A New University
- The Cawood Sword
- Stonegate
- Margaret Clitherow
- View from Station Rise
- York in the fifteenth Century
- St Crux's Church
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Guy Fawkes
- Bootham Bar
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Statue of Napoleon
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- Cumberland House, King's Staith