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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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Cinema Comes to York
- Ripon College for Women
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The First Railway Station
- York Art Gallery
- Inscription from Fortress Gate
- The First Minster
- Anglian Carving
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Sixties York
- Barley Hall
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- John Carr - Architect
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Skeldergate Bridge
- All Saints Church, North Street