Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Hospitium
- Eric Bloodaxe
- Holy Trinity Church
- Norman Window Frame
- 62 Low Petergate
- Bronze weights
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- Church of St Marys Bishophill Junior
- Walmgate Bar
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- Church of St Olave
- Second World War York
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Skeldergate Bridge