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Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York and the Holocaust
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- York's Coat of Arms
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- The Shambles
- Teaching the Poor
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- St William's Shrine
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Gold Arm Ring
- Fairfax House
- Statue of Napoleon
- The Mansion House
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- Guy Fawkes
- The Assembly Rooms