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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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Minster in Viking Times
- John Carr - Architect
- York Art Gallery
- Inscription from Fortress Gate
- York Union Gas Works
- The Railway Institute
- Daniel Defoe's York
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- A New University
- Is York Cursed?
- Margaret Clitherow
- Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- The Female Prison
- The Cawood Sword
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- York's first historian: Francis Drake