Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Constantius Chlorus
- The Greyfriars
- De Grey Rooms
- The Retreat
- Middleham Jewel
- Vikings and Christianity
- York Central Library
- Fairfax House
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- Eric Bloodaxe
- York Art Gallery
- Bone Trial Piece
- Is York Cursed?
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Rowntree Park
- Anglian Cross
- The Norman Abbey
- Feeding Roman York