Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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The Expanding City
As York grew during the 20th century...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Walmgate Bar
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- The Horn of Ulf
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- Vikings and Christianity
- Is York Cursed?
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- A New Walk
- The Multangular Tower
- St Crux's Church
- George Leeman
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Church of St Helen
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Our Lady's Row
- Victoria Bar