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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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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The Roman Army in York
Over a period of about 300 years Yor...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- Church of St Olave
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- The Minster after the Reformation
- New Earswick
- York St John in the 20th Century
- Alcuin of York
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- The Greyfriars
- Elizabeth Boardingham
- Crest of York St John College
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- The First Minster
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- York's Airfield