Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Anglo Scandinavian York
The period of York's history between...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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The Roman Army in York
Over a period of about 300 years Yor...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Central Methodist Chapel
- Lendal Tower
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- The Debtors' Prison
- Fire in the Minster
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Ouse Bridge
- York's Coat of Arms
- Sixties York
- The New Theatre
- The Norman Abbey
- York Garrison
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse