Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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The Roman Civilian Settlement
In AD 71, the Ninth Legion of the Ro...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- Judges Lodging
- Statue of Napoleon
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- The Norman Abbey
- St William's Shrine
- Anglian Carving
- York and the Holocaust
- Central Methodist Chapel
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- Statue of the God Mars
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- Church of St Helen
- York in the fifteenth Century
- St Leonard's Hospital
- The York Helmet
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)