Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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After The Romans
The period of York's history from 40...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Assembly Rooms
- Anglian Carving
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- The Medieval Castle
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Judges Lodging
- York Art Gallery
- Middleham Jewel
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- York's Airfield
- Constantius Chlorus
- York St John in the 20th Century
- Lendal Tower
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior