Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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The Romans Arrive
York ’s history truly be...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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The Roman Army in York
Over a period of about 300 years Yor...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- The First Railway Station
- Viking Male Grooming
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- A New Walk
- Victoria Bar
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- Alcuin of York
- Rowntree Park
- Sixties York
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Lendal Tower
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop