Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- The George Fox Incident
- The Railway Institute
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- The Horn of Ulf
- Victoria Bar
- A New Vision For York
- View from Station Rise
- York and the Holocaust
- The Norman Castle
- York in the fifteenth Century
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- New Shopping Centres
- Central Methodist Chapel
- King Edward III and York
- The York Hoard
- Teaching the Poor
- The Red Tower