Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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The Roman Civilian Settlement
In AD 71, the Ninth Legion of the Ro...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- The Bar Convent
- Scarborough Bridge
- Walmgate Bar
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- The York Helmet
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- The Multangular Tower
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- York and the Holocaust
- Viking Boot
- The Medieval Abbey
- The Norman Abbey
- Barker Tower