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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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Cinema Comes to York
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- Church of St Helen
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Rebuilt in Stone
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Is York Cursed?
- The Multangular Tower
- Barker Tower
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- Stonegate
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- Church of All Saints Pavement