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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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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New Century and New Standards
A housing revolution Benjamin Seebo...
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The Roman Civilian Settlement
In AD 71, the Ninth Legion of the Ro...
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Life in Viking York
York changed when it was captured by...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The New Theatre
- Walmgate Bar
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- The Council of Arles
- Alcuin of York
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Second World War York
- The Black Death
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Mithras and Arimanius
- Viking Coins
- Mary Ward
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Bones of a Roman Combatant