Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Lost Buildings of York
York is celebrated for its medieval...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Victorian Prison Building
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- York Railway Station
- York's Coat of Arms
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- The Roman Fortress
- Eric Bloodaxe
- The Assembly Rooms
- The Greyfriars
- King Edward I and York
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Cinema Comes to York
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- Medieval Prisons
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- King's Manor - Victorian