Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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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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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York and the Holocaust
- St Crux's Church
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- King's Manor - Victorian
- Rebuilt in Stone
- Medieval Prisons
- Vikings and Christianity
- The 1190 Massacre
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Scarborough Bridge
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- The Minster in Viking Times
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- The Medieval Minster
- The Female Prison
- Eric Bloodaxe
- York's Airfield
- Inscription from Fortress Gate