Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Gold Arm Ring
- Scarborough Bridge
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Our Lady's Row
- York's Coat of Arms
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- Church of St Helen
- Sixties York
- Rowntree Park
- Bone Trial Piece
- The Multangular Tower
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- The Railway Institute