Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Build-up to Civil War
Charles I came to the throne in 1625...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- George Leeman
- Viking Coins
- Middleham Jewel
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The End of the Abbey
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Eye Doctor's Branding Tool
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- Our Lady's Row
- Inscription from Fortress Gate
- Anglian Cross
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- York's Coat of Arms
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- Crest of York St John College
- The Norman Abbey
- The Assembly Rooms