Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Norman Abbey
- The Minster in Viking Times
- King Edward I and York
- First World War York
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- King Edward II and York
- Feeding Roman York
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The Assembly Rooms
- Medieval Prisons
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- Lendal Bridge
- Barley Hall
- Treasurer's House
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- York St John in the 20th Century
- The End of the Abbey