Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Norman
When York was conquered by William,...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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The York City Walls
The city or ‘bar’ walls...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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The Liberty of St Peter
Not every part of medieval York came...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Bar Convent
- Medieval Chamber Pot
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- Transport Moves On
- Anglian Cross
- Skeldergate Bridge
- 62 Low Petergate
- New Shopping Centres
- The Female Prison
- Painting of 'The Brig Studley'
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- The White Rose of York
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- Royal Station Hotel
- Scarborough Bridge
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Saint William: Patron Saint of York