Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Margaret Clitherow
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- Crest of York St John College
- Aldwark Synagogue
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- William Etty, Artist
- The York Observatory
- St Crux's Church
- Teaching the Poor
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- The County Court House
- York Central Library
- Minster Library
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- Rebuilt in Stone