Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
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Norman
When York was conquered by William,...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Medieval City Defences
The king was concerned with the thre...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- Elizabeth Boardingham
- The Norman Abbey
- York in the fifteenth Century
- New Shopping Centres
- The Council of Arles
- The Medieval Minster
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- A New University
- York and the Holocaust
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- Clifford's Tower
- Daniel Defoe's York
- King's Manor - Victorian
- The Hospitium
- Sixties York
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Water Lanes