Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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The Romans Arrive
York ’s history truly be...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- View from Station Rise
- New Earswick
- The Medieval Castle
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- The Railway Institute
- The Norman Castle
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- The Norman Minster
- Ouse Bridge
- Central Methodist Chapel
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- The Norman House
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- Anglian Carving
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Dick Turpin