Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Roman Army in York
Over a period of about 300 years Yor...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York Union Gas Works
- Our Lady's Row
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- The Multangular Tower
- Is York Cursed?
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- The Assembly Rooms
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Margaret Clitherow
- The Debtors' Prison
- King's Manor - Victorian
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- Silver Strap Ends
- Constantius Chlorus