Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- Norman Window Frame
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- A New Walk
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- Bootham Bar
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- The York Hoard
- The Debtors' Prison
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- The Basilica
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Viking Silk Cap
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- York and the Holocaust
- The Battle of the Standard