Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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1000 Years of Justice at York Castle
York Castle has been a site of justi...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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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...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The First Railway Station
- Church of St Wilfrid
- The Debtors' Prison
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Fishergate Bar
- The Norman House
- The First Minster
- New Earswick
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- The George Fox Incident
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Lendal Bridge
- Fire in the Minster
- Statue of Napoleon
- Inscription from Fortress Gate
- York's Airfield