Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Rebellion and Revenge
To make room for one of his castles,...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Jubbergate
- Jewbury Cemetery
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- Military Belt Fitting
- Central Methodist Chapel
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- Daniel Defoe's York
- The Abbot's House
- New Shopping Centres
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- De Grey Rooms
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- New Earswick
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church