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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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Norman
When York was conquered by William,...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Margaret Clitherow
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- The New Theatre
- George Leeman
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- York Central Library
- The Bar Convent
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- The White Rose of York
- Minster Library
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Bootham School
- Viking Sword Pommel
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- Barker Tower