Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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Life in Medieval York
In the Middle Ages, York was home to...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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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.
- Ouse Bridge
- The Greyfriars
- The First Railway Station
- Statue of Napoleon
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- The Norman Minster
- New Shopping Centres
- Church of St Olave
- Skeldergate Bridge
- St William's Shrine
- The Norman Abbey
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Teaching the Poor
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- York and the Restoration of the Monarchy
- The Basilica
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- Sixties York