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 Siege
In July of 1644 York was in a state...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Daniel Defoe's York
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- King Edward III and York
- Bootham Bar
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Viking Male Grooming
- The Mystery Plays
- New Shopping Centres
- The First Minster
- Eric Bloodaxe
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Jubbergate
- Military Belt Fitting