Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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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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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Church of St Helen
- Anglian Cross
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- The York Observatory
- The Abbot's House
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- The Battle of the Standard
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- Monk Bar
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- The End of the Abbey
- Teaching the Poor
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier