Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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After The Romans
The period of York's history from 40...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Yorkshire Museum
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Gold Arm Ring
- The New Theatre
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Olive Oil Container
- Industrial Upheaval
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- The Shambles
- The Medieval Minster
- Crest of York St John College
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- Elizabeth Boardingham
- York St John in the 20th Century