Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The White Rose of York
- Statue of the God Mars
- Merchant Adventurers' Hall
- Inscription to Hecules
- Guy Fawkes
- King Edward II and York
- Dick Turpin
- St Leonard's Hospital
- The End of the Abbey
- Sixties York
- Roman Gods and Goddesses
- The Newgate Cross Shaft
- Teaching the Poor
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- York Garrison
- Bone Trial Piece
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse