Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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The Expanding City
As York grew during the 20th century...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Military Belt Fitting
- Walmgate Bar
- Church of St Helen
- The Black Death
- Central Methodist Chapel
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- Bronze weights
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Inscription from Fortress Gate
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- Statue of an Athlete
- Rowntree & Co: Chocolate Manufacturers
- 62 Low Petergate
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Rowntree Park
- Statue of Napoleon
- York's first historian: Francis Drake