Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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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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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- John Carr - Architect
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- Lendal Bridge
- Daniel Defoe's York
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- Roman Gods and Goddesses
- Church of St Wilfrid
- Inscription to Hecules
- First World War York
- Anglian Carving
- Aldwark Synagogue
- The First Minster
- 62 Low Petergate
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- Yorkshire Museum
- William Etty, Artist