Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Rebellion and Revenge
To make room for one of his castles,...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Minster Library
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- Church of St Olave
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- The Mystery Plays
- Bronze weights
- Viking Sword Pommel
- A New University
- Eric Bloodaxe
- Norman Window Frame
- Second World War York
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- Roman Gods and Goddesses
- A New Walk
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- The Black Death
- Skeldergate Bridge