Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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20th Century
The twentieth century saw the city o...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Multangular Tower
- King Richard II and York
- The York Hoard
- St William's Shrine
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- The Retreat
- Mary Ward
- The Medieval Castle
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- First World War York
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Fishergate Bar
- The Cawood Sword
- Bootham School
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate