Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The New Theatre
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- Middleham Jewel
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Statue of Napoleon
- Margaret Clitherow
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The George Fox Incident
- Church of St Helen
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- The Debtors' Prison
- Gold Finger Ring
- Scarborough Bridge
- The Minster in Viking Times
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- The Railway King: George Hudson