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Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- Medieval Prisons
- Church of St Wilfrid
- Fire in the Minster
- Teaching the Poor
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Viking Boot
- The Horn of Ulf
- The New Theatre
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- York and the Holocaust
- Dick Turpin
- The Shambles
- The Crossed Keys Symbol