Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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After The Romans
The period of York's history from 40...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Norman Castle
- Alcuin of York
- King Richard II and York
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- The Railway Institute
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Micklegate Bar
- Barley Hall
- The Horn of Ulf
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- York Castle Museum
- Anglian Carving
- Statue of an Athlete
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Silver Strap Ends
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Skeldergate Bridge
- First World War Memorial