Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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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...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- The Horn of Ulf
- Alcuin of York
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Ripon College for Women
- Treasurer's House
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- The Shambles
- York Central Library
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- Industrial Upheaval
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- Is York Cursed?
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- The Railway Institute
- Anglian Cross