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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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- First World War Memorial
- Viking Coins
- Viking Sword Pommel
- Church of St Olave
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- De Grey Rooms
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The First Minster
- Gold Finger Ring
- Inscription to Hecules
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Viking Male Grooming
- Ripon College for Women
- Feeding Roman York
- Norman Window Frame