Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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The End of Roman York
Eboracum (Roman York) remained an i...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Amber Bead Workshop
- The Female Prison
- Church of St Helen
- The Medieval Castle
- Fairfax House
- Bone Trial Piece
- Minster Library
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- The Abbot's House
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- The Mystery Plays
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- The Norman Castle
- Anglian Cross
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- The George Fox Incident
- Margaret Clitherow