Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Medieval Minster
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Sixties York
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- The Female Prison
- Viking Male Grooming
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- Feeding Roman York
- The Railway Institute
- King Edward III and York
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- Bootham School
- Aldwark Synagogue
- The Red Tower
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart