Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- Feeding Roman York
- The Female Prison
- Aldwark Synagogue
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- Anglian Cross
- The Guildhall
- Fire in the Minster
- Viking Sword Pommel
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Mary Ward
- Barley Hall
- A Pipkin
- York Garrison