Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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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...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Stonegate
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Church of St Wilfrid
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- The Minster in Viking Times
- Transport Moves On
- A New Vision For York
- The New Theatre
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Viking Silk Cap
- Statue of Napoleon
- Cinema Comes to York
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- The Basilica