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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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Sixties York
- Bronze weights
- The Guildhall
- York and the Holocaust
- York in the fifteenth Century
- The York Observatory
- The Medieval Minster
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- King Edward I and York
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Roman Chimney Pot
- Stonegate
- Teaching the Poor
- Minster Library
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- The Mystery Plays