Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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Norman Religious Buildings
The religious foundations laid by th...
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The Guilds of York
Guilds are formal groups of citizens...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Wartime York
York began as a fortress and has bee...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Judges Lodging
- The Hospitium
- Queen Margaret's Arch
- Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
- Lendal Bridge
- Teaching the Poor
- Statue of Napoleon
- Soup Toureen with Horse Handle
- Church of St Wilfrid
- Treasurer's House
- St Leonard's Hospital
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- York Garrison
- Anglian Cross