Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Eric Bloodaxe
- The Norman Castle
- The Railway Institute
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- The Female Prison
- King Edward I and York
- York's Coat of Arms
- Yorkshire Museum
- Church of St Olave
- Norman Window Frame
- Bronze weights
- Military Belt Fitting
- The Guildhall
- Treasurer's House
- Viking Silk Cap
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom