Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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York's Jewish History - An Audio Trail
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Feeding Roman York
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- First World War York
- New Earswick
- Anglian Carving
- Jubbergate
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- Judges Lodging
- The Railway Institute
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- Inscription to Hecules
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- Daniel Defoe's York
- The Female Prison
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse