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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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York's Coat of Arms
- Is York Cursed?
- The Basilica
- The End of the Abbey
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Micklegate Bar
- The Mystery Plays
- Daniel Defoe's York
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- A New University
- The York Hoard
- Ripon College for Women
- Bootham Bar
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Viking Male Grooming
- Feeding Roman York