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Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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Life in Medieval York
In the Middle Ages, York was home to...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York Union Gas Works
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- St Crux's Church
- The Basilica
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- Bronze weights
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- York and the Holocaust
- George Leeman
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- St William's Shrine
- King Richard III and York
- Is York Cursed?
- York St John in the 20th Century
- The First Minster
- The York Hoard
- The Greyfriars