Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Black Death
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- The Roman Fortress
- Fairfax House
- Water Lanes
- The White Rose of York
- The Female Prison
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Middleham Jewel
- Skeldergate Bridge
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- The Medieval Castle
- Mary Ward
- Fire in the Minster
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- The Greyfriars
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop