Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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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...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bone Trial Piece
- Rowntree Park
- Barley Hall
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- The New Theatre
- The Black Death
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- The Medieval Minster
- Judges Lodging
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- Royal Station Hotel
- The Roman Fortress
- Church of St Helen
- Bootham Bar
- Inscription to Hecules
- The Multangular Tower