Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- A New Walk
- George Leeman
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- View from Station Rise
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- Constantius Chlorus
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- The Guildhall
- Industrial Upheaval
- Statue of the God Mars
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- Dick Turpin
- The Roman Fortress
- Roman Gods and Goddesses
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop