Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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A Jewish History Audio Tour
This Trail is produced by IPUP, The...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Holy Trinity Church
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Scarborough Bridge
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The First Railway Station
- York Art Gallery
- A Pipkin
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Rowntree Park
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Church of St Olave
- Stonegate
- Dick Turpin
- St Crux's Church