Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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The Expanding City
As York grew during the 20th century...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bootham School
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- King Richard II and York
- The Assembly Rooms
- Daniel Defoe's York
- The Horn of Ulf
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Viking Boot
- 62 Low Petergate
- The Victorian Prison Building
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- Church of St Helen
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Medieval Prisons
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- The Roman Fortress
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York