Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Church of St Helen
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- Bone Trial Piece
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- Bootham School
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- St William's Shrine
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- Inscription to Hecules
- Barker Tower
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- Our Lady's Row
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- The Abbot's House
- The Roman Fortress