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Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- The Hospitium
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- Dick Turpin
- The Assembly Rooms
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- Church of St Helen
- Bronze weights
- Amber Bead Workshop
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- Hair of a Roman Girl