Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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Lost Buildings of York
York is celebrated for its medieval...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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The End of Roman York
Eboracum (Roman York) remained an i...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Multangular Tower
- Lendal Tower
- Vikings and Christianity
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Sixties York
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- Skeldergate Bridge
- Water Lanes
- Roman Gods and Goddesses
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- York in the fifteenth Century
- George Leeman
- Tombstone of a Roman Soldier
- Bronze weights
- Statue of an Athlete