Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bone Trial Piece
- The Black Death
- Middleham Jewel
- First World War York
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Viking Male Grooming
- The Greyfriars
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- The Debtors' Prison
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- The York Observatory
- Is York Cursed?
- Yorkshire Museum
- First World War Memorial
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- The Norman House
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'