Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Rebellion and Revenge
To make room for one of his castles,...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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After The Romans
The period of York's history from 40...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- King Edward I and York
- Our Lady's Row
- The Bar Convent
- The New Theatre
- Jewbury Cemetery
- York Garrison
- The First Railway Station
- York Union Gas Works
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Viking Boot
- Constantius Chlorus
- The Norman Castle
- Margaret Clitherow
- The George Fox Incident
- York and the Holocaust
- The Black Death