Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Minster after the Reformation
- The York Helmet
- Lendal Bridge
- Second World War York
- All Saints Church, North Street
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- York St John in the 20th Century
- Silver Strap Ends
- The Multangular Tower
- King's Manor - Victorian
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- The White Rose of York
- Holy Trinity Church
- Rowntree Park
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Alcuin of York