Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Guy Fawkes
- Inscription to Hecules
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- York and the Holocaust
- Roman Gods and Goddesses
- The Norman Abbey
- Church of St Olave
- York Bombed
- The Greyfriars
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- York Art Gallery
- Viking Male Grooming
- Clifford's Tower
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- York Union Gas Works
- The Mystery Plays
- Rowntree Park
- Crest of York St John College