Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Life in Medieval York
In the Middle Ages, York was home to...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Basilica
- The Shambles
- Barley Hall
- First World War York
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- The Retreat
- King Edward III and York
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- Church of St Wilfrid
- The County Court House
- York in the fifteenth Century
- A New University
- The Norman House
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- The Minster in Viking Times
- Yorkshire Museum
- Is York Cursed?
- King Richard II and York