Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- A Pipkin
- The York Observatory
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- The Norman Abbey
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- 62 Low Petergate
- The Horn of Ulf
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- The Greyfriars
- York in the fifteenth Century
- A New University
- Minster Library
- Teaching the Poor
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Feeding Roman York
- The York Helmet