Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- York Castle Museum
- The Retreat
- Rebuilt in Stone
- The Black Death
- King Edward III and York
- Jubbergate
- The York Observatory
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- A Pipkin
- New Shopping Centres
- The Norman Castle
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom