Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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The York Abbey, St Mary's
St Mary's Abbey in York was a g...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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York Castle
Together with the Abbey and the C...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The New Theatre
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- The Crossed Keys Symbol
- The Victorian Prison Building
- Viking Coins
- Gold Arm Ring
- Church of All Saints Pavement
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- Aldwark Synagogue
- Scarborough Bridge
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- York Castle Museum
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- York Railway Station
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- York St John in the 20th Century
- St Leonard's Hospital