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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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Ripon College for Women
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- The York Hoard
- The End of the Abbey
- King Richard III and York
- The York Observatory
- New Shopping Centres
- The Norman Minster
- Dick Turpin
- The Hospitium
- The Battle of the Standard
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- The Minster after the Reformation
- The Minster in Viking Times
- York Union Gas Works
- Trams Pulled by Horses