Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Rebellion and Revenge
To make room for one of his castles,...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- York Union Gas Works
- Anglian Cross
- Viking Boot
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Middleham Jewel
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Minster Library
- A Pipkin
- Church of St Helen
- The Medieval Abbey
- First World War Memorial
- York and the Holocaust
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- York St John in the 20th Century
- Viking Coins
- The Railway Institute