Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- Eric Bloodaxe
- The First Minster
- Skeldergate Bridge
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- Mary Ward
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- Guy Fawkes
- Feeding Roman York
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- A Pipkin
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- Judges Lodging
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- York and the Holocaust
- The Retreat
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York