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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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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The Expanding City
As York grew during the 20th century...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Greyfriars
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- Ripon College for Women
- 62 Low Petergate
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Eric Bloodaxe
- Middleham Jewel
- Gold Arm Ring
- Minster Library
- The 1190 Massacre
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Church of St Helen
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- Anglian Cross
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Feeding Roman York
- Rowntree Park
- Elizabeth Boardingham