Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Retreat
- Industrial Upheaval
- Vikings and Christianity
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- New Earswick
- Holy Trinity Church
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- The Norman Castle
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- The Debtors' Prison
- Bronze weights
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Second World War York
- Fairfax House
- The Black Death
- Artists, Writers and Scientists