Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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Impact of the Reformation
Henry VIII's reformation of the chur...
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Prehistory
Human beings have lived in the immed...
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Tudor Troubles
Richard III had been a friend to Yor...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Minster Library
- Painting of 'Queen Henrietta Maria'
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers
- Industrial Upheaval
- Crest of York St John College
- Norman Window Frame
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- Vale of York Viking Hoard
- Treasurer's House
- Middleham Jewel
- York in the fifteenth Century
- The Assembly Rooms
- York Garrison
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- York's Medieval Synagogue