Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
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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,...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Statue of the God Mars
- Roman Head Pot
- Daniel Defoe's York
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- The Cawood Sword
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Viking Coins
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- The York Observatory
- The Hospitium
- King's Manor - Victorian
- The Bar Convent
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- The Medieval Castle
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- William Etty, Artist