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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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Amber Bead Workshop
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The Horn of Ulf
- Elizabeth Boardingham
- The First Minster
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- A New University
- Bronze weights
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- King Edward III and York
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- Micklegate Bar
- View from Station Rise
- Statue of Napoleon
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- The Minster after the Reformation