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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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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A Regional Capital
The abolition of the Council in the...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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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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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Railway King: George Hudson
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- Bone Trial Piece
- King Edward I and York
- The Battle of Marston Moor
- Micklegate Bar
- Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
- George Leeman
- Minster Library
- The Roman Fortress
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- Inside the Roman Fortress
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- The Hospitium
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Bronze weights
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate