Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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The Roman Army in York
Over a period of about 300 years Yor...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- King Edward I and York
- The New Theatre
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- Water Lanes
- Dick Turpin
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Fishergate Bar
- Jewbury Cemetery
- Vikings and Christianity
- Minster Library
- Bootham Bar
- Rebuilt in Stone
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- Lendal Tower
- Monk Bar
- York and the Holocaust
- Church of St Olave