Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Multangular Tower
- The Basilica
- The First Railway Station
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Holy Trinity Church
- A New Vision For York
- Rowntree Park
- Medieval Prisons
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- Treasurer's House
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Bronze weights
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- Statue of the God Mars
- Fire in the Minster