Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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The Roman Civilian Settlement
In AD 71, the Ninth Legion of the Ro...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- The Minster in Viking Times
- Roman Chimney Pot
- Dick Turpin
- The Battle of the Standard
- Anglian Cross
- The Medieval Abbey
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Sixties York
- Ripon College for Women
- The Retreat
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- New Earswick
- The First Railway Station