Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Is York Cursed?
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The White Rose of York
- The First Minster
- The Norman Minster
- York Art Gallery
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- The Medieval Castle
- Viking Sword Pommel
- Inscription to Hecules
- Royal Station Hotel
- Barley Hall
- The First Railway Station
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- York St John in the 20th Century
- St Crux's Church