Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Life in Medieval York
In the Middle Ages, York was home to...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Industrial Upheaval
- Fairfax House
- Gold Finger Ring
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Church of St Helen
- The Medieval Castle
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- Statue of Napoleon
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- The Medieval Abbey
- The Shambles
- York Guildhall Painted Glass Window
- York Bombed
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- York Garrison
- The Council of Arles
- The Battle of the Standard
- York in the fifteenth Century