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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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Sixties York
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Anglian Carving
- View from Station Rise
- The George Fox Incident
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- First World War Memorial
- Bootham Bar
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Church of St Olave
- Anglian Cross
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- The County Court House
- Silver Strap Ends