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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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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The Roman Army in York
Over a period of about 300 years Yor...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Anglian Carving
- A New University
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- A New Vision For York
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- The Railway Institute
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- The Red Tower
- Viking Coins
- Church of St Helen
- The Black Death
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- Olive Oil Container
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- York Garrison
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- Tombstone of Julia Velva