Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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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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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Holy Trinity Church
- Is York Cursed?
- Gold Arm Ring
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Yorkshire Museum
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- 62 Low Petergate
- King's Manor - Victorian
- Bone Trial Piece
- The Roman Fortress
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- The George Fox Incident
- York Union Gas Works
- The First Railway Station