Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- The Norman Abbey
- Viking Boot
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- Bootham School
- Constantius Chlorus
- St Crux's Church
- St Leonard's Hospital
- The Norman Castle
- Fire in the Minster
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- The York Hoard
- Inscription to Hecules
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Church of St Wilfrid
- York Railway Station