Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Viking Coins
- A New University
- The Norman Minster
- Minster Library
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Fairfax House
- De Grey Rooms
- Dick Turpin
- Rowntree Park
- Rebuilt in Stone
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- Vikings and Christianity
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- The Battle of the Standard
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- Bones of a Roman Combatant