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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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- New Earswick
- The Red Tower
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- The First Railway Station
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Anglian Carving
- The First Minster
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Medieval Prisons
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- View from Station Rise
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- Bones of a Roman Combatant