Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Fire in the Minster
- York and the Holocaust
- Fairfax House
- Viking Coins
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- York in the fifteenth Century
- A New University
- Dick Turpin
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- 62 Low Petergate
- Eric Bloodaxe
- Bootham Bar
- Mithras and Arimanius
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Clifford's Tower
- Teaching the Poor