Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Rebellion and Revenge
To make room for one of his castles,...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- The Mystery Plays
- Military Belt Fitting
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Jewbury Cemetery
- The Horn of Ulf
- Second World War York
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- The Council of Arles
- King Edward III and York
- Scarborough Bridge
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The Medieval Abbey
- The White Rose of York