Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Basilica
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- York in the fifteenth Century
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- The Mansion House
- Second World War York
- Bone Trial Piece
- The Horn of Ulf
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Eric Bloodaxe
- The Railway Institute
- York Central Library
- Lendal Bridge
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- Norman Window Frame
- The End of the Abbey