Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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A Jewish History Audio Tour
This Trail is produced by IPUP, The...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Female Prison
- York Railway Station
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- The County Court House
- The Council of Arles
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Statue of an Athlete
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Ouse Bridge
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- The Roman Fortress
- Viking Coins
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- The York Helmet