Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Medieval Minster
- Church of St Helen
- Is York Cursed?
- The Roman Fortress
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Eric Bloodaxe
- The Minster after the Reformation
- York's Coat of Arms
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- The George Fox Incident
- Jewbury Cemetery
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- George Leeman
- Scarborough Bridge
- York St John in the 20th Century
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'