Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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The Expanding City
As York grew during the 20th century...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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The End of Roman York
Eboracum (Roman York) remained an i...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Basilica
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- Mary Ward
- Silver Strap Ends
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Fairfax House
- Victoria Bar
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- Stonegate
- Anglian Carving
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- The Debtors' Prison
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- King's Manor - Victorian
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Mithras and Arimanius