Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Second World War York
- York and the Holocaust
- The End of the Abbey
- View from Station Rise
- York Garrison
- Skeldergate Bridge
- York Union Gas Works
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- The Guildhall
- Statue of an Athlete
- York in the fifteenth Century
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Gold Arm Ring
- The York Helmet
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters