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 Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Viking Industry and Trade
Manufactured objects in Jorvik ...
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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Tudor Troubles Two
The Tudor dynasty was a religious ro...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Scarborough Bridge
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- The Guildhall
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The White Rose of York
- The Minster in Viking Times
- Stonegate
- The Debtors' Prison
- Statue of Napoleon
- The Norman Castle
- Norman Window Frame
- York's Coat of Arms
- Margaret Clitherow
- Mary Ward
- Inscription from Fortress Gate
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- King's Manor - Victorian