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 Expanding City
As York grew during the 20th century...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Second World War York
- Bone Trial Piece
- The Female Prison
- Sixties York
- Lendal Tower
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- Daniel Defoe's York
- York Union Gas Works
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- The Bar Convent
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- Stonegate
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Inscription to Hecules
- First World War York
- A Pipkin
- The George Fox Incident
- The Red Tower