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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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Anglo Scandinavian York
The period of York's history between...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- The Norman Minster
- George Leeman
- Elizabeth Boardingham
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- The York Hoard
- Inscription from Fortress Gate
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Margaret Clitherow
- A New Walk
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Our Lady's Row
- Royal Station Hotel
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- The Minster after the Reformation