Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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The Roman Civilian Settlement
In AD 71, the Ninth Legion of the Ro...
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The Romans Arrive
York ’s history truly be...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The York Helmet
- York and the Holocaust
- The Female Prison
- The Greyfriars
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Sixties York
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- King's Manor - Victorian
- Mary Ward
- Military Belt Fitting
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Eric Bloodaxe
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- The Norman Minster
- Jewbury Cemetery
- York Bombed
- The Minster in the 20th Century