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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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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The Roman Civilian Settlement
In AD 71, the Ninth Legion of the Ro...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- Statue of an Athlete
- A New Walk
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Is York Cursed?
- Ripon College for Women
- The Hospitium
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- Norman Window Frame
- Yorkshire Museum
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- The Bar Convent
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- Viking Boot
- Statue of Napoleon
- A Pipkin
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Daniel Defoe's York