Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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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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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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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...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Female Prison
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- John Carr - Architect
- The Council of Arles
- Minster Library
- The Guildhall
- Ripon College for Women
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- The Norman Castle
- Medieval Prisons
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- The White Rose of York
- The York Observatory
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Norman Window Frame
- Church of St Helen
- The Shambles