Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Bar Convent
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Ouse Bridge
- Daniel Defoe's York
- A New University
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- The First Railway Station
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- Barker Tower
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Church of St Olave
- Statue of Napoleon
- York in the fifteenth Century
- The Medieval Abbey
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Medieval Prisons
- York's Coat of Arms
- The Battle of Marston Moor