Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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The Roman Civilian Settlement
In AD 71, the Ninth Legion of the Ro...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- York and the Holocaust
- Lendal Tower
- Jewbury Cemetery
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- The Mystery Plays
- The Norman Minster
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Crest of York St John College
- Dick Turpin
- Lendal Bridge
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Barley Hall
- The White Rose of York