Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Anglo Scandinavian York
The period of York's history between...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The New Theatre
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- Ripon College for Women
- The York Observatory
- York's Coat of Arms
- York Central Library
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- King Richard II and York
- York Castle Museum
- Yorkshire Museum
- Is York Cursed?
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Crest of York St John College
- The Debtors' Prison
- Fairfax House
- Statue of Napoleon
- The Horn of Ulf