Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Trade in the Medieval City
Freemen Not just anyone could trade...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Industrial Upheaval
- Water Lanes
- Viking Boot
- Inscription from Fortress Gate
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The Abbot's House
- York Union Gas Works
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Statue of the God Mars
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- 62 Low Petergate
- The Minster after the Reformation
- Anglian Cross
- Ouse Bridge
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- George Leeman
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels