Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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The Roman Army in York
Over a period of about 300 years Yor...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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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...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Roman Head Pot
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- Sixties York
- The Norman Minster
- The Debtors' Prison
- Victoria Bar
- John Carr - Architect
- Bone Trial Piece
- Minster Library
- The White Rose of York
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- The Basilica
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Rowntree Park
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa