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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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Rebellion and Revenge
To make room for one of his castles,...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- De Grey Rooms
- Guy Fawkes
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Anglian Carving
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- The Basilica
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- A Pipkin
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- The End of the Abbey
- Jubbergate
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- Bootham Bar
- Constantius Chlorus
- Viking Coins
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool