Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Teaching the Poor
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- The Mystery Plays
- Lendal Bridge
- The Council of Arles
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- York Castle Museum
- York Bombed
- Church of St Olave
- York's Coat of Arms
- Yorkshire Museum
- Roman Head Pot
- Bootham School
- King Richard III and York
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- Mary Ward