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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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- The End of the Abbey
- The Horn of Ulf
- Roman Head Pot
- The Council of Arles
- Water Lanes
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- Industrial Upheaval
- Ouse Bridge
- St William's Shrine
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- The County Court House
- Ripon College for Women
- Skeldergate Bridge
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- Daniel Defoe's York