Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- Water Lanes
- Bone Trial Piece
- Lendal Bridge
- Bootham Bar
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- The Debtors' Prison
- The 1190 Massacre
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- First World War Memorial
- The New Theatre
- Alcuin of York
- Industrial Upheaval
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- The First Minster
- The Red Tower
- Transport Moves On