Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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A List of Key Dates in York's History
A brief chronology of the city: Rom...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Roman Head Pot
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Minster Library
- The Guildhall
- The Retreat
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York
- New Shopping Centres
- York and the Holocaust
- Olive Oil Container
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- Bone Trial Piece
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- The Railway Institute
- Walmgate Bar
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- Viking Boot
- Yorkshire Museum
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop