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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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Black Death
- George Leeman
- Margaret Clitherow
- Anglian Cross
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- The Railway Institute
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Is York Cursed?
- The County Court House
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- King's Manor - Victorian
- A New University
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- Minster Library
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- The First Minster
- The York Hoard