Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- The Norman Abbey
- Statue of the God Mars
- Viking Silk Cap
- Fire in the Minster
- The Mystery Plays
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Roman Gods and Goddesses
- Church of St Helen
- The Battle of the Standard
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- York's Airfield
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- The Greyfriars
- The Medieval Abbey
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- John Carr - Architect