Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- A Pipkin
- Mary Ward
- York in the fifteenth Century
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- William Etty, Artist
- Fishergate Bar
- 62 Low Petergate
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Bootham School
- Jewbury Cemetery
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Aldwark Synagogue
- The First Minster
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- The Basilica