Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Visible Roman York
The Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gar...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
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The Roman Civilian Settlement
In AD 71, the Ninth Legion of the Ro...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Clifford's Tower
- The First Railway Station
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Monk Bar
- Norman Window Frame
- The Norman Castle
- The Hospitium
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Medieval Prisons
- Water Lanes
- The Medieval Minster
- The Cawood Sword