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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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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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The Romans Arrive
York ’s history truly be...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Our Lady's Row
- The Norman Abbey
- Ripon College for Women
- Is York Cursed?
- York Castle Museum
- The Black Death
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- The First Railway Station
- Minster Library
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- The End of the Abbey
- Viking Coins
- New Shopping Centres
- Inscription from Fortress Gate