Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Ripon College for Women
- Judges Lodging
- Royal Station Hotel
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- The York Helmet
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Viking Male Grooming
- Olive Oil Container
- Daniel Defoe's York
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- Scarborough Bridge
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- The Council of Arles
- Bootham School
- The York Hoard
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries