Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The York Observatory
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- Barker Tower
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- William Etty, Artist
- Viking Silk Cap
- Crest of York St John College
- Statue of an Athlete
- York and the Holocaust
- Viking Boot
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Lendal Bridge
- Fire in the Minster
- Cinema Comes to York
- The Guildhall