Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- A Pipkin
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- Mithras and Arimanius
- New Shopping Centres
- Church of St Helen
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- York and the Holocaust
- Sixties York
- Guy Fawkes
- King Richard III and York
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- The Medieval Minster
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- Anglian Cross
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- Stonegate