Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Walmgate Bar
- Fishergate Bar
- King Richard III and York
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- A New University
- Jubbergate
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- First World War Memorial
- The Greyfriars
- The Victorian Prison Building
- The Medieval Castle
- Central Methodist Chapel
- The Horn of Ulf
- The Bar Convent
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- The Black Death
- New Shopping Centres
- York Union Gas Works