Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- St Crux's Church
- Lendal Bridge
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- Barker Tower
- The George Fox Incident
- Feeding Roman York
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- Yorkshire Museum
- Eric Bloodaxe
- York Castle Museum
- Judges Lodging
- Alcuin of York
- De Grey Rooms
- The End of the Abbey
- Transport Moves On
- The Abbot's House
- York in the fifteenth Century