Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Judges Lodging
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- First World War York
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- Industrial Upheaval
- Fairfax House
- Bootham School
- Olive Oil Container
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Inscription to Hecules
- York and the Holocaust
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- Rebuilt in Stone
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- The New Theatre
- The York Helmet
- The Railway King: George Hudson