Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Lost Buildings of York
York is celebrated for its medieval...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Inscription to Hecules
- De Grey Rooms
- Mary Ward
- The Roman Fortress
- 62 Low Petergate
- The Greyfriars
- Silver Strap Ends
- Inscription from Fortress Gate
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Minster Library
- The York Helmet
- Margaret Clitherow
- Viking Sword Pommel
- Judges Lodging
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom