Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Anglo Scandinavian York
The period of York's history between...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Viking Coins
- Gold Arm Ring
- York Castle Museum
- The Black Death
- The Shambles
- Margaret Clitherow
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Inscription to Hecules
- Central Methodist Chapel
- Church of St Wilfrid
- King Edward I and York
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- Rebuilt in Stone
- St Crux's Church
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- St Leonard's Hospital