Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Life in Medieval York
In the Middle Ages, York was home to...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- York's Airfield
- Church of St Olave
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- York Central Library
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Barley Hall
- First World War Memorial
- The Minster in Viking Times
- The Mansion House
- View from Station Rise
- The Medieval Abbey
- St William's Shrine
- Cumberland House, King's Staith