Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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After The Romans
The period of York's history from 40...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Bootham Bar
- Viking Boot
- The First Minster
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- New Shopping Centres
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- The Abbot's House
- Fire in the Minster
- Roman Chimney Pot
- King Richard II and York
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- King's Manor - Victorian
- The End of the Abbey
- York Union Gas Works