Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- 62 Low Petergate
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- Skeldergate Bridge
- Jewbury Cemetery
- The First Railway Station
- Ripon College for Women
- Bronze weights
- The Retreat
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- The Bar Convent
- King Richard III and York
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- Second World War York
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Our Lady's Row
- Fire in the Minster