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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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Life in Medieval York
In the Middle Ages, York was home to...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The New Theatre
- Treasurer's House
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- The Medieval Castle
- Bootham School
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- Bronze weights
- Jewbury Cemetery
- Fire in the Minster
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- St Crux's Church
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Viking Silk Cap
- Anglian Carving
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- St William's Shrine
- Statue of an Athlete