Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Film comes to History of York
HoY now has movies! A recent...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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The Railway Revolution
The railways saved York from stagnat...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- King Edward III and York
- Lendal Bridge
- The Female Prison
- Church of St Helen
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- Statue of an Athlete
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Micklegate Bar
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- York Castle Museum
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- The Retreat
- Margaret Clitherow
- York St John in the 20th Century
- Roman Gods and Goddesses
- The York Observatory