Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bootham School
- Treasurer's House
- King's Manor - Victorian
- View from Station Rise
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- Viking Boot
- Cinema Comes to York
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- The Female Prison
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- The Norman Minster
- Industrial Upheaval
- Elizabeth Boardingham
- Amber Bead Workshop
- Medieval Prisons