Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Multangular Tower
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Lendal Tower
- The Medieval Castle
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- Jubbergate
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- St William's Shrine
- Aldwark Synagogue
- Ouse Bridge
- York Central Library
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- Plum Cakes for Christmas