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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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- The George Fox Incident
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- The Black Death
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Jewbury Cemetery
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- Is York Cursed?
- Ouse Bridge
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- The Hospitium
- New Earswick
- Lendal Bridge