Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York St John in the 20th Century
- Our Lady's Row
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- The Council of Arles
- The Shambles
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- The York Observatory
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- York and the Holocaust
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Mary Ward
- Constantius Chlorus
- William Etty, Artist
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom