Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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The Romans Arrive
York ’s history truly be...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- 62 Low Petergate
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- The Victorian Prison Building
- The Medieval Abbey
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- The Debtors' Prison
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- York Railway Station
- The Medieval Minster
- Norman Window Frame
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- Church of St Wilfrid
- York Garrison
- Statue of Napoleon
- York's Coat of Arms