Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The White Rose of York
- A New Walk
- The First Railway Station
- The Railway Institute
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- Military Belt Fitting
- Micklegate Bar
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- A New Vision For York
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Central Methodist Chapel
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- View from Station Rise