Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The First Minster
- Water Lanes
- Alcuin of York
- The Debtors' Prison
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- York and the Holocaust
- York St John in the 20th Century
- Industrial Upheaval
- Elizabeth Boardingham
- Guy Fawkes
- New Shopping Centres
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- Jubbergate
- The Norman Minster
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers