Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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The Expanding City
As York grew during the 20th century...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Statue of an Athlete
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- York in the fifteenth Century
- The Female Prison
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Minster Library
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- Micklegate Bar
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- View from Station Rise
- Alcuin of York
- The Black Death
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Barker Tower