Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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Norman
When York was conquered by William,...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Olive Oil Container
- Rowntree Park
- Dick Turpin
- The Female Prison
- York Castle Museum
- York Union Gas Works
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Bootham Bar
- Cinema Comes to York
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- George Leeman
- John Carr - Architect
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Central Methodist Chapel
- The Railway Institute
- Glazed Medieval Jug