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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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Holy Trinity Church
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- York Union Gas Works
- Industrial Upheaval
- Mary Ward
- The Minster after the Reformation
- The George Fox Incident
- Scarborough Bridge
- A Pipkin
- Roman Head Pot
- St William's Shrine
- The York Observatory
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Bootham School
- Vikings and Christianity
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- The Victorian Prison Building