Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Margaret Clitherow
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- The Medieval Castle
- York Union Gas Works
- The Norman House
- Clifford's Tower
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- King's Manor - Victorian
- Holy Trinity Church
- Daniel Defoe's York
- The Basilica
- The Medieval Abbey
- Viking Male Grooming
- First World War York
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church