Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Roman Head Pot
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- The Female Prison
- Constantius Chlorus
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Judges Lodging
- William Etty, Artist
- York's Airfield
- The First Minster
- Sixties York
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- Ouse Bridge
- York and the Holocaust
- The Red Tower
- Daniel Defoe's York
- The Medieval Abbey
- The Assembly Rooms