Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- A Pipkin
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- York Garrison
- The Hospitium
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- York and the Holocaust
- Anglian Carving
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- King Edward I and York
- Military Belt Fitting
- The Minster after the Reformation
- York in the fifteenth Century
- King's Manor - Victorian
- The George Fox Incident
- Ouse Bridge
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions