Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- York Union Gas Works
- The First Railway Station
- The Horn of Ulf
- Aldwark Synagogue
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Mithras and Arimanius
- The County Court House
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Bootham School
- Eric Bloodaxe
- The George Fox Incident
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- King Edward II and York
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- The Battle of the Standard
- Bronze weights