Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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The Roman Army in York
Over a period of about 300 years Yor...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Statue of the God Mars
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- The White Rose of York
- Middleham Jewel
- Teaching the Poor
- George Leeman
- Inscription to Hecules
- De Grey Rooms
- View from Station Rise
- York and the Holocaust
- Bronze weights
- The Railway Institute
- Is York Cursed?
- A New Vision For York
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- Victoria Bar
- York in the fifteenth Century