Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Holy Trinity Church
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- Rowntree Park
- Silver Strap Ends
- Sixties York
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- The County Court House
- Roman Gods and Goddesses
- Margaret Clitherow
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Statue of Napoleon
- York's Coat of Arms
- The Assembly Rooms
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart