Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Viking timeline
793 – Viking raiders attack Li...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Gold Finger Ring
- Aldwark Synagogue
- New Earswick
- The Retreat
- St Crux's Church
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- King Richard II and York
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- Gold Arm Ring
- York Castle Museum
- Anglian Cross
- Jubbergate
- All Saints Church, North Street
- Medieval Prisons
- De Grey Rooms
- Hair of a Roman Girl