Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The First Railway Station
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- New Earswick
- First World War Memorial
- Alcuin of York
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Viking Male Grooming
- New Shopping Centres
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- The Minster in Viking Times
- The White Rose of York
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Anglian Carving
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The Multangular Tower
- York Art Gallery
- The Assembly Rooms