Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- King Edward III and York
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Viking Coins
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Statue of Napoleon
- The Abbot's House
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- The Guildhall
- Our Lady's Row
- Dick Turpin
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- King Richard II and York
- St Leonard's Hospital
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- The Assembly Rooms
- The Medieval Minster