Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- Second World War York
- Medieval Prisons
- Sixties York
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- The Council of Arles
- Viking Boot
- Alcuin of York
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Statue of the God Mars
- Anglian Carving
- Yorkshire Museum
- York and the Holocaust
- George Leeman
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa