Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Lendal Bridge
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Norman Window Frame
- Jubbergate
- Church of St Olave
- A New University
- Feeding Roman York
- The Female Prison
- Guy Fawkes
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Teaching the Poor
- Rowntree Park
- York Bombed
- The Medieval Abbey
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- Victoria Bar