Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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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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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- The Norman Minster
- Royal Station Hotel
- Gold Finger Ring
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- The First Railway Station
- Daniel Defoe's York
- The Norman Abbey
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- York Bombed
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- The George Fox Incident
- St Leonard's Hospital
- The Roman Fortress
- The Norman Castle