Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Rebellion and Revenge
To make room for one of his castles,...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Constantius Chlorus
- The York Observatory
- Ouse Bridge
- Lendal Bridge
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- The Railway Institute
- York Central Library
- The First Minster
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- First World War Memorial
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- Medieval Prisons
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Fairfax House
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse