Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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1000 Years of Justice at York Castle
York Castle has been a site of justi...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Inscription from Fortress Gate
- Water Lanes
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Viking Boot
- York Union Gas Works
- The 1190 Massacre
- The Multangular Tower
- Micklegate Bar
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Teaching the Poor
- The York Observatory
- The Retreat
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning