Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Constantine the Great
Constantine came to Britain w...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Coppergate & Jorvik Viking Centre
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- York in the fifteenth Century
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- The Norman Abbey
- William Etty, Artist
- Teaching the Poor
- The Norman Castle
- Water Lanes
- Bootham Bar
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- First World War York
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- Amber Bead Workshop
- Fairfax House
- The End of the Abbey