Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Norman Minster
- Fire in the Minster
- The York Observatory
- St Crux's Church
- Gold Arm Ring
- Dick Turpin
- York in the fifteenth Century
- The End of the Abbey
- Elizabeth Boardingham
- New Earswick
- Bootham School
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- York's Airfield
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- York Union Gas Works
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- The First Railway Station