Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- De Grey Rooms
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- New Shopping Centres
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Industrial Upheaval
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Lendal Tower
- Church of St Helen
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- A New Vision For York
- A New University
- York Bombed
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- Barker Tower
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- Anglian Cross