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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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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A City Worth Visiting
With so much preserved history, attr...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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A Blossoming Cultural Scene
The Victorian thirst for self-improv...
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Catholic Resistance
Some Catholic scholars, exiled on th...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Judges Lodging
- Transport Moves On
- The Head Office of the North Eastern Railway
- Barley Hall
- St William's Shrine
- Viking Boot
- Rebuilt in Stone
- Rowntree Park
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- The Shambles
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- Viking Sword Pommel
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- St Crux's Church