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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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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The End of Roman York
Eboracum (Roman York) remained an i...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Norman Window Frame
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- Church of St Helen
- Is York Cursed?
- York in the fifteenth Century
- John Carr - Architect
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- The First Minster
- The End of the Abbey
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- York and the Holocaust
- The York Observatory
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- St Crux's Church
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York