Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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After the Siege
In July of 1644 York was in a state...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The First Railway Station
- York and the Holocaust
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- The Female Prison
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Ripon College for Women
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Middleham Jewel
- George Leeman
- The Retreat
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- Viking Sword Pommel
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- The 1190 Massacre
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)