Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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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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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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The End of Roman York
Eboracum (Roman York) remained an i...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Eric Bloodaxe
- A New University
- Anglian Carving
- Ouse Bridge
- The Cawood Sword
- The Debtors' Prison
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- King Edward I and York
- Guy Fawkes
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- The Medieval Abbey
- View from Station Rise