Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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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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A Jewish History Audio Tour
This Trail is produced by IPUP, The...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Skeldergate Bridge
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Cinema Comes to York
- The County Court House
- Statue of an Athlete
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- Yorkshire Museum
- Industrial Upheaval
- Sixties York
- New Earswick
- Middleham Jewel
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- King Richard III and York
- Central Methodist Chapel
- The Red Tower
- Viking Sword Pommel
- Queen Margaret's Arch