Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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The Expanding City
As York grew during the 20th century...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Viking Coins
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- De Grey Rooms
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Transport Moves On
- The Roman Fortress
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- Inscription from Fortress Gate
- Sixties York
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- Is York Cursed?
- The Female Prison
- The Retreat
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Gold Finger Ring
- The Abbot's House