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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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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The Romans Arrive
York ’s history truly be...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Viking Boot
- Inscription to Hecules
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- The Assembly Rooms
- The York Observatory
- Mary Ward
- Ripon College for Women
- Roman Head Pot
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- Stonegate
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Jewbury Cemetery
- The Cawood Sword
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The Medieval Castle
- The Railway Institute