Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Norman Window Frame
- The Minster in Viking Times
- York Art Gallery
- Industrial Upheaval
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- Scarborough Bridge
- Central Methodist Chapel
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- The York Helmet
- Statue of the God Mars
- Guy Fawkes
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Statue of Napoleon
- The First Minster
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- York Bombed
- New Shopping Centres
- Artists, Writers and Scientists