Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Gold Arm Ring
- Anglian Carving
- The Shambles
- Central Methodist Chapel
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- The White Rose of York
- Statue of Napoleon
- Clifford's Tower
- The York Observatory
- New Earswick
- The Railway Institute
- Micklegate Bar
- York Bombed
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- Church of St Helen
- Trams Pulled by Horses