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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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- Skeldergate Bridge
- York Railway Station
- The First Minster
- The Horn of Ulf
- 62 Low Petergate
- Clifford's Tower
- The Bar Convent
- The George Fox Incident
- The Battle of the Standard
- Anglian Carving
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- The Black Death
- York in the fifteenth Century
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa