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Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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The Roman Civilian Settlement
In AD 71, the Ninth Legion of the Ro...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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The End of Roman York
Eboracum (Roman York) remained an i...
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Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- View from Station Rise
- Amber Bead Workshop
- George Leeman
- Barker Tower
- Feeding Roman York
- Royal Station Hotel
- The Norman House
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Jewbury Cemetery
- Skeldergate Bridge
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- Constantius Chlorus
- York and the Holocaust
- The Minster in the 19th Century