Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Lost Buildings of York
York is celebrated for its medieval...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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The Expanding City
As York grew during the 20th century...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- New Earswick
- Roman Chimney Pot
- Crest of York St John College
- York and the Holocaust
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- The Railway Institute
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- Jewbury Cemetery
- Stonegate
- Sixties York
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- St Crux's Church