Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Retreat
- Treasurer's House
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- King Richard II and York
- King's Manor - Victorian
- York Railway Station
- Elizabeth Boardingham
- Fishergate Bar
- Our Lady's Row
- The Mansion House
- The Norman Abbey
- Bone Trial Piece
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- Scarborough Bridge
- Margaret Clitherow