Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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A City Protected by Water
The Romans chose York’s locati...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Executions in York
On 31 March 1379 Edward Hewison was...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Victorian
York didn’t become high...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Battle of the Standard
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- The Norman Abbey
- Barley Hall
- Elizabeth Boardingham
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Roman Head Pot
- York and the Holocaust
- The Female Prison
- Hair of a Roman Girl
- Bone Trial Piece
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- The Hospitium
- The New Theatre
- The Shambles