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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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Cinema Comes to York
- The York Observatory
- York's Medieval Synagogue
- George Leeman
- 62 Low Petergate
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- Daniel Defoe's York
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- The Retreat
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- York Union Gas Works
- The First Railway Station
- Fishergate Bar
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- First World War York
- York Castle Museum