Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Lendal Bridge
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- York Central Library
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- The Assembly Rooms
- Margaret Clitherow
- York Art Gallery
- Industrial Upheaval
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- William Etty, Artist
- The Railway Institute
- Rebuilt in Stone
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- Viking Male Grooming
- Sixties York
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers