Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Minster after the Reformation
- The Council of Arles
- Norman Window Frame
- Minster Library
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- Micklegate Bar
- Crest of York St John College
- Roman Head Pot
- The Assembly Rooms
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Mary Ward
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- Viking Silk Cap
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- Anglian Hanging Bowl