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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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- St Crux's Church
- Statue of the God Mars
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Rebuilt in Stone
- The First Minster
- Minster Library
- The Medieval Castle
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- Viking Sword Pommel
- King Richard III and York
- Amber Bead Workshop
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa