Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Feeding Roman York
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- The First Minster
- York and the Holocaust
- All Saints Church, North Street
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- The Black Death
- The Minster after the Reformation
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- The Bar Convent
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Viking Boot
- Roman Head Pot
- Bootham Bar