Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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After The Romans
The period of York's history from 40...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Our Lady's Row
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Industrial Upheaval
- King Edward II and York
- York Railway Station
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- Sixties York
- A New Walk
- York and the Holocaust
- The Council of Arles
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- George Leeman
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Norman Window Frame