Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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A Jewish History Audio Tour
This Trail is produced by IPUP, The...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Medieval Prisons
- The Cawood Sword
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- Viking Coins
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- The Black Death
- York Art Gallery
- The Battle of the Standard
- The Female Prison
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Sixties York
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- The Debtors' Prison