Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- A New Vision For York
- Viking Male Grooming
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Bootham Bar
- Fire in the Minster
- Dick Turpin
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- The Norman Minster
- The Victorian Prison Building
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- Medieval Prisons
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- The Norman Castle
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle