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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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York and the Holocaust
- The Medieval Abbey
- New Shopping Centres
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- Eric Bloodaxe
- Inscription to Hecules
- Cinema Comes to York
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- Clifford's Tower
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- The Norman Abbey
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- York's Airfield
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- King Richard II and York
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- The Retreat