Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- 62 Low Petergate
- The York Helmet
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- The Medieval Minster
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- King's Manor - Victorian
- Lendal Bridge
- The Medieval Abbey
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Cinema Comes to York
- Barley Hall
- York and the Holocaust
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- St Crux's Church
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head