Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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1000 Years of Justice at York Castle
York Castle has been a site of justi...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Viking Silk Cap
- Rowntree Park
- Bone Trial Piece
- The Assembly Rooms
- Mary Ward
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Church of St Helen
- Second World War York
- King Edward I and York
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Ripon College for Women
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- Rebuilt in Stone