Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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The End of Roman York
Eboracum (Roman York) remained an i...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- Silver Strap Ends
- The First Minster
- The York Observatory
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- York and the Holocaust
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Guy Fawkes
- York Garrison
- Jewbury Cemetery
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- The Greyfriars
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Micklegate Bar
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- The Guildhall