Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Barley Hall
- Viking Male Grooming
- The Black Death
- Statue of the God Mars
- Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers
- First World War Memorial
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- De Grey Rooms
- Statue of an Athlete
- Mary Ward
- Is York Cursed?
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Roman Gods and Goddesses
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre