Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Lost Buildings of York
York is celebrated for its medieval...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The First Railway Station
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- King Edward II and York
- The Red Tower
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- Transport Moves On
- The Female Prison
- View from Station Rise
- St Crux's Church
- The White Rose of York
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- Anglian Carving
- Skeldergate Bridge
- Ripon College for Women
- York and the Holocaust
- Clifford's Tower
- The York Observatory