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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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- Aldwark Synagogue
- De Grey Rooms
- The York Hoard
- Viking Silk Cap
- King Richard II and York
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- Jewbury Cemetery
- The Norman Minster
- Transport Moves On
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- The New Theatre
- The Hospitium
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- The Battle of the Standard