Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Jewbury Cemetery
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- New Shopping Centres
- The Black Death
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- Dick Turpin
- Bootham School
- The Minster after the Reformation
- The Shambles
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- King's Manor - Victorian
- The Retreat
- Rowntree Park
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- Margaret Clitherow
- The Roman Fortress