Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bootham Bar
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- The Railway Institute
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Vikings and Christianity
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Central Methodist Chapel
- Constantius Chlorus
- Anglian Cross
- The Female Prison
- King Edward I and York
- Industrial Upheaval
- The York Observatory
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop