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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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Jewbury Cemetery
- The White Rose of York
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Church of St Olave
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- The Railway Institute
- Aldwark Synagogue
- Victoria Bar
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- New Earswick
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- The 1190 Massacre
- St William's Shrine
- Vikings and Christianity
- The Minster in the 20th Century