Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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After the Siege
In July of 1644 York was in a state...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The Red Tower
- Lendal Bridge
- Clifford's Tower
- York and the Holocaust
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Rowntree Park
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Jubbergate
- Ripon College for Women
- Roman Head Pot
- The 1190 Massacre
- Fire in the Minster
- The Medieval Abbey
- The Railway King: George Hudson