Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Trade on the Rivers
York stands at the point where two r...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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Viking
The Vikings are easily reduced to a...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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York in the Civil War
After the king left the city, York w...
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Georgian Architecture
York was fortunate to undergo a buil...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- Glazed Medieval Jug
- The Mystery Plays
- The Mansion House
- St Martin Le Grand Church
- Plum Cakes for Christmas
- Daniel Defoe's York
- Vikings and Christianity
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Ripon College for Women
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- King's Manor Tudor and Stuart
- St Crux's Church
- Eric Bloodaxe
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Inside the Roman Fortress