Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- Aldwark Synagogue
- Clifford's Tower
- Teaching the Poor
- Rowntree Park
- St Crux's Church
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Yorkshire Museum
- Margaret Clitherow
- Amber Bead Workshop
- The Female Prison
- The County Court House
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- York Garrison
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)