Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Royal Station Hotel
- The First Railway Station
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Micklegate Bar
- Yorkshire Museum
- Constantius Chlorus
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- The York Hoard
- New Earswick
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- York Central Library
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- The Crossed Keys Symbol