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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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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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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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- King Edward II and York
- The Norman Minster
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- Ripon College for Women
- Rowntree Park
- Mithras and Arimanius
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- New Shopping Centres
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- Fairfax House
- The Norman House
- The Red Tower
- Sixties York
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The Medieval Minster
- Bronze weights