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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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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The Roman Army in York
Over a period of about 300 years Yor...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Ripon College for Women
- Statue of the God Mars
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- The End of the Abbey
- The York Observatory
- King Edward III and York
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Anglian Carving
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- The Norman Abbey
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- Bone Trial Piece
- York in the fifteenth Century
- The Mansion House
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Alcuin of York