Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Fire in the Minster
- The Hospitium
- St William's Shrine
- Barker Tower
- York and the Holocaust
- York Bombed
- Scarborough Bridge
- Vikings and Christianity
- Bronze weights
- Medieval Prisons
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Skeldergate Bridge
- Ripon College for Women
- Central Methodist Chapel
- The Debtors' Prison
- The Medieval Castle
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers