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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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York Art Gallery
- A New University
- King Edward III and York
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- The Assembly Rooms
- Alcuin of York
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- Elizabeth Boardingham
- Sixties York
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- William Etty, Artist
- Mary Ward
- The Norman Abbey
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- Gold Arm Ring
- Judges Lodging
- Victoria Bar