Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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After the Siege
In July of 1644 York was in a state...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- Industrial Upheaval
- Stonegate
- Walmgate Bar
- Jubbergate
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- A New Vision For York
- First World War York
- The Cawood Sword
- New Shopping Centres
- Church of St Wilfrid
- The Bar Convent
- Statue of an Athlete
- Clifford's Tower
- The Roman Fortress
- The Abbot's House