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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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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The Roman Civilian Settlement
In AD 71, the Ninth Legion of the Ro...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Rebellion and Revenge
To make room for one of his castles,...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York Central Library
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Church of St Helen
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- The Norman Minster
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Alcuin of York
- Barley Hall
- Viking Silk Cap
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Norman Window Frame
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- Guy Fawkes
- The Abbot's House