Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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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...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Church of St Olave
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Medieval Prisons
- Church of St Helen
- Church of St Wilfrid
- The Railway Institute
- York Castle Museum
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- The Norman House
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- Gold Arm Ring
- Guy Fawkes
- York and the Holocaust
- De Grey Rooms
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- Vikings and Christianity
- Alcuin of York