Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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The End of Roman York
Eboracum (Roman York) remained an i...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- The New Theatre
- Royal Station Hotel
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- Sixties York
- York's Coat of Arms
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- The Basilica
- Bronze weights
- Skeldergate Bridge
- Margaret Clitherow
- Barley Hall
- The County Court House
- Fire in the Minster
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- York in the fifteenth Century
- York and the Holocaust