Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York Art Gallery
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- Industrial Upheaval
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Yorkshire Museum
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- The York Helmet
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- Church of St Wilfrid
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Medieval Prisons
- The Council of Arles
- The Horn of Ulf
- The First Minster
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- York Central Library
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- Statue of Napoleon