Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- A New University
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- New Earswick
- Bronze weights
- Amber Bead Workshop
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- York's Airfield
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- King Edward I and York
- Bone Trial Piece
- St Crux's Church
- The Norman Abbey
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Military Belt Fitting
- Silver Strap Ends
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- The Horn of Ulf
- Glazed Medieval Jug