Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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A Jewish History Audio Tour
This Trail is produced by IPUP, The...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Transport Moves On
- The Mansion House
- Bronze weights
- Industrial Upheaval
- The York Observatory
- Constantius Chlorus
- York and the Holocaust
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- The Cawood Sword
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- The Horn of Ulf
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- St William's Shrine
- Margaret Clitherow
- The County Court House
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Roman Gods and Goddesses