Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The First Railway Station
- The Mystery Plays
- Norman Window Frame
- Viking Sword Pommel
- The First Minster
- The New Theatre
- The Bar Convent
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- Military Belt Fitting
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- York and the Holocaust
- William Etty, Artist
- The Debtors' Prison
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- The Multangular Tower
- Holy Trinity Church