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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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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- 62 Low Petergate
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Margaret Clitherow
- Royal Station Hotel
- St William's Shrine
- The Guildhall
- Water Lanes
- Bootham Bar
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- Viking Male Grooming
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Statue of Napoleon
- Scarborough Bridge