Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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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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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Debtors' Prison
- Church of St Olave
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- Viking Boot
- Anglian Burial Vessel
- Vikings and Christianity
- Minster Library
- York in the fifteenth Century
- York and the Holocaust
- New Shopping Centres
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- Gold Finger Ring
- Jubbergate
- The Mystery Plays
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- Viking Sword Pommel
- The Norman House