Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- St William's Shrine
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Industrial Upheaval
- Anglian Cross
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- King's Manor - Victorian
- Teaching the Poor
- Fairfax House
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- Jubbergate
- York and the Holocaust
- Constantius Chlorus
- Gold Finger Ring
- The Horn of Ulf
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Church of St Olave
- The Medieval Minster