Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Debtors' Prison
- York and the Holocaust
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- Statue of the God Mars
- York's Coat of Arms
- Anglian Carving
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- Sixties York
- St William's Shrine
- Lendal Bridge
- The Bar Convent
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Teaching the Poor
- York's Airfield
- Royal Station Hotel
- Church of St Wilfrid
- Amber Bead Workshop