Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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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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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York Central Library
- Mary Ward
- Bootham Bar
- Lendal Bridge
- The Battle of the Standard
- York and the Holocaust
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- The Railway Institute
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- First World War Memorial
- The Minster after the Reformation
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Anglian Carving
- Anglian Cross
- King Richard III and York
- Transport Moves On
- Bronze weights