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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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- The Battle of the Standard
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- York St John in the 20th Century
- The York Helmet
- New Earswick
- The Norman Minster
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- Church of St Wilfrid
- Constantius Chlorus
- Is York Cursed?
- King Edward III and York
- New Shopping Centres
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- Bone Trial Piece