Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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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...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York Bombed
- Treasurer's House
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- The Abbot's House
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- The Shambles
- York Railway Station
- The County Court House
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- King Edward I and York
- The Hospitium
- A Pipkin
- Fire in the Minster
- Margaret Clitherow
- King Edward II and York
- The George Fox Incident