Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The End of Roman York
Eboracum (Roman York) remained an i...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- The Black Death
- Gold Finger Ring
- A New Vision For York
- Church of St Helen
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- Mary Ward
- York and the Holocaust
- The Railway Institute
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Margaret Clitherow
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- Olive Oil Container
- Jubbergate
- New Shopping Centres
- A New University
- The Railway King: George Hudson