Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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Monastic Orders in York
As well as countless churches, Medie...
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Roman Empire Governed from York
The Roman world was governed from w...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- First World War Memorial
- Viking Boot
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Judges Lodging
- York Union Gas Works
- Mosaic with a Woman's Head
- York Art Gallery
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- The End of the Abbey
- The New Theatre
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Transport Moves On
- Holy Trinity Church