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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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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City Under Siege
At Selby on April 11, 1644, the parl...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Tombstone of Julia Velva
- The Multangular Tower
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- New Earswick
- 62 Low Petergate
- Yorkshire Museum
- The Medieval Abbey
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- St Michael-Le-Belfrey Church
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Norman Window Frame
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York