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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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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The Romans Arrive
York ’s history truly be...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York and the Holocaust
- The Medieval Minster
- Alcuin of York
- Jewbury Cemetery
- The Medieval Abbey
- The Norman House
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- York Railway Station
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- First World War Memorial
- The 1190 Massacre
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- The Female Prison
- The Norman Minster
- Statue of the God Mars
- Norman Window Frame