Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Is York Cursed?
- The Norman Minster
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- The Norman Abbey
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Ripon College for Women
- The End of the Abbey
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- York St John in the 20th Century
- Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers
- The Hospitium
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The Red Tower
- The New Theatre