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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The End of Roman York
Eboracum (Roman York) remained an i...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- Victoria Bar
- Viking Coins
- Viking Boot
- The Railway Institute
- The Debtors' Prison
- Statue of an Athlete
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Scarborough Bridge
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- York Union Gas Works
- The Multangular Tower
- Church of St Olave
- Constantius Chlorus
- York St John in the 20th Century