Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- King Richard II and York
- The Minster in Viking Times
- Vikings and Christianity
- The Red Tower
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- Inscription to Hecules
- Statue of an Athlete
- Stonegate
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- Dick Turpin
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Constantius Chlorus
- A Pipkin
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- St Crux's Church