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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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- The York Helmet
- York Castle Museum
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- St Crux's Church
- The Mystery Plays
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Eric Bloodaxe
- Bootham School
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- The Norman Minster
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- The First Railway Station
- Statue of an Athlete