Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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York's Jewish History - An Audio Trail
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- William Etty, Artist
- Olive Oil Container
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- 62 Low Petergate
- York Bombed
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- Fairfax House
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- Inscription to Hecules
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Constantius Chlorus