Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Viking Invasion
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Bonel...
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Industrialisation
In the latter half of the 19th centu...
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1000 Years of Justice at York Castle
York Castle has been a site of justi...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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The Viking Kingdom
For the best part of a century large...
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Georgian
Georgian York was no longer a city o...
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Minster in Viking Times
- Artists, Writers and Scientists
- Bootham Park Hospital (formerly York Lunatic Asylum)
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- Yorkshire Museum
- Robert Holgate, Archbishop
- Statue of an Athlete
- The First Minster
- Viking Coins
- The York Helmet
- Anglian Cross
- The Abbot's House
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- Walmgate Bar
- George Leeman
- King Edward I and York
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers