Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- A Pipkin
- St William's Shrine
- The First Railway Station
- The Medieval Abbey
- Royal Station Hotel
- Statue of the God Mars
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- View from Station Rise
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- York Garrison
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- Stonegate