Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Roman Civilian Settlement
In AD 71, the Ninth Legion of the Ro...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Statue of Napoleon
- New Earswick
- Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- The Medieval Abbey
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- The Debtors' Prison
- Clifford's Tower
- The White Rose of York
- Barley Hall
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- The York Helmet
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Scarborough Bridge
- The Norman Castle
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- First World War York