Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Fire in the Minster
- York in the fifteenth Century
- The Hospitium
- New Earswick
- Ripon College for Women
- The Medieval Minster
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- York St John in the 20th Century
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Military Belt Fitting
- Transport Moves On
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- The Mansion House
- Statue of an Athlete
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Barker Tower