Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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The Roman Civilian Settlement
In AD 71, the Ninth Legion of the Ro...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York in the fifteenth Century
- New Earswick
- Margaret Clitherow
- Bootham School
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- The Greyfriars
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- The Mansion House
- Medieval Prisons
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- The Debtors' Prison
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- Anglian Cross
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Feeding Roman York