Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Is York Cursed?
- Transport Moves On
- York Central Library
- De Grey Rooms
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Mithras and Arimanius
- St Crux's Church
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- York Union Gas Works
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- A New Walk
- A New Vision For York
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Viking Boot
- The Victorian Prison Building
- The First Railway Station