Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Church of St Wilfrid
- All Saints Church, North Street
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Yorkshire Museum
- Inscription from Fortress Gate
- New Earswick
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- King Richard III and York
- Treasurer's House
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- The Council of Arles
- Fishergate Bar
- York St John in the 20th Century
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Gold Arm Ring