Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Feeding Roman York
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Transport Moves On
- The First Railway Station
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Walmgate Bar
- The Hospitium
- The Basilica
- Gold Finger Ring
- The Black Death
- Ouse Bridge
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Silver Strap Ends
- Viking Coins