Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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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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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Fire in the Minster
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- The York Observatory
- A New Vision For York
- York Union Gas Works
- First World War York
- New Shopping Centres
- Minster Library
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Church of St Wilfrid
- The Greyfriars
- Jubbergate
- Viking Boot
- Dick Turpin
- Industrial Upheaval
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- Second World War York