Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Is York Cursed?
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Middleham Jewel
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Gold Arm Ring
- 62 Low Petergate
- A New University
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- The Red Tower
- Monk Bar
- King Edward II and York
- The Black Death
- Sixties York
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- Ripon College for Women
- Anglian Cross
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- Constantius Chlorus