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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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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Life in Medieval York
In the Middle Ages, York was home to...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- Lendal Tower
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Rebuilt in Stone
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Judges Lodging
- Mary Ward
- New Shopping Centres
- Skeldergate Bridge
- York Railway Station
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- Micklegate Bar
- Bone Trial Piece