Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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The End of Roman York
Eboracum (Roman York) remained an i...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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The Roman Army in York
Over a period of about 300 years Yor...
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1000 Years of Justice at York Castle
York Castle has been a site of justi...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- Micklegate Bar
- Bootham School
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- Teaching the Poor
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- A New Walk
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Feeding Roman York
- Viking Sword Pommel
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Ouse Bridge
- York Garrison
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- St William's Shrine