Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Stonegate
- The Railway Institute
- The Council of Arles
- New Shopping Centres
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- Viking Male Grooming
- A New Walk
- The Retreat
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Industrial Upheaval
- View from Station Rise
- The Minster after the Reformation
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- Victoria Bar
- The Battle of Marston Moor