Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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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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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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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...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Central Methodist Chapel
- St Leonard's Hospital
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- Barley Hall
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- The Railway Institute
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- The Multangular Tower
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- King's Manor - Victorian
- Transport Moves On
- John Carr - Architect
- Rowntree Park
- York in the fifteenth Century
- The Norman Abbey
- The Cawood Sword