Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Middleham Jewel
- Yorkshire Museum
- The Debtors' Prison
- Anglian Cross
- The Minster in Viking Times
- Bootham School
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Gold Finger Ring
- King Edward III and York
- Ripon College for Women
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- Minster Library
- Olive Oil Container
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Stonegate
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'