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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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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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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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- A New University
- The Victorian Prison Building
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- The Norman Castle
- Mithras and Arimanius
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- The York Observatory
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Bone Trial Piece
- Water Lanes
- The Basilica
- Middleham Jewel
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Olive Oil Container
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'