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Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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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 Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Statue of an Athlete
- Bootham Bar
- The Assembly Rooms
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- The Norman Castle
- Is York Cursed?
- The 1190 Massacre
- Second World War York
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- York and the Holocaust
- Minster Library
- The Multangular Tower
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- Jubbergate
- The Battle of the Standard