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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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Basilica
- St William's Shrine
- York Garrison
- A Pipkin
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- The Norman Castle
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- Church of St Wilfrid
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- The Debtors' Prison
- Fairfax House
- The Red Tower
- The Norman Minster
- The 1190 Massacre
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- The Black Death