Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- New Earswick
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- The York Hoard
- Bootham Bar
- Minster Library
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The Debtors' Prison
- The Bar Convent
- Viking Coins
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- Lendal Tower
- The White Rose of York
- Guy Fawkes
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- Viking Sword Pommel
- York and the Holocaust