Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Guild Halls of York
The biggest guilds were rich and pow...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Teaching the Poor
- York Garrison
- The Council of Arles
- The Hospitium
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- The Medieval Minster
- View from Station Rise
- The Bar Convent
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- The Female Prison
- Eric Bloodaxe
- The First Railway Station
- Tombstone of Julia Velva