Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Judges Lodging
- Industrial Upheaval
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- York Garrison
- Stonegate
- Guy Fawkes
- Eric Bloodaxe
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- The Multangular Tower
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- New Earswick
- Church of St Helen
- St Leonard's Hospital