Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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After The Romans
The period of York's history from 40...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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After the Siege
In July of 1644 York was in a state...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Statue of Napoleon
- The Norman Minster
- The Norman Abbey
- Yorkshire Museum
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- Inscription to Hecules
- Water Lanes
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- Minster Library
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- New Shopping Centres
- York St John in the 20th Century
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- The Assembly Rooms
- Roman Head Pot
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop