Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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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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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- King's Manor - Victorian
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Viking Silk Cap
- Stonegate
- Viking Male Grooming
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- King Edward III and York
- The 1190 Massacre
- Church of St Olave
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- Bone Trial Piece
- Minster Library
- A New Walk
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- Second World War York