Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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The Roman Civilian Settlement
In AD 71, the Ninth Legion of the Ro...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bone Trial Piece
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- York in the fifteenth Century
- The York Helmet
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- The Minster in Viking Times
- The Female Prison
- Rowntree Park
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- Our Lady's Row
- Second World War York
- Amber Bead Workshop
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Bronze weights
- Margaret Clitherow
- King Richard II and York