Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- The York Hoard
- George Leeman
- Lendal Bridge
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- The Victorian Prison Building
- A Pipkin
- The Greyfriars
- 62 Low Petergate
- Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers
- The George Fox Incident
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Roman Gods and Goddesses
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- The Mystery Plays
- Scarborough Bridge