Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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After the Siege
In July of 1644 York was in a state...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Inscription to Hecules
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- King Richard II and York
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- The Greyfriars
- The Railway Institute
- The White Rose of York
- A Pipkin
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- King Edward II and York
- York and the Holocaust
- Treasurer's House
- York Bombed